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Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Chicago Sun-Times; Aug 20, 1998; ; 637 Words `Metaphysical Portraits: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz' Through Sept. 13 Chicago Cultural Center...Set designers are musicians are raconteurs. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939) was known chiefly in Poland...
Around the galleries: Susannah Woolmer and Lin Barton preview photography, drawing and painting in New York and a 'pop-classic' in London.(Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Frank Auerbach and Derrick Greaves' works)
Apollo; Apr 1, 2006; ; 700+ Words ...painter and photographer Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz was a central figure among...York; +1 212 753 4444). Witkiewicz was heavily influenced by the...sinuous, linear drawings. Witkiewicz believed that the controlled...
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre; ; 498 Words Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy [ Stanislaw Ignacy Witkacy ] (1885–1939), Polish artist, novelist, and dramatist, who led a stormy and unhappy life, mainly in exile, travelling widely in Russia and visiting Australia. He committed...
Stanislaw Lem: Socio-political sci-fi.
The Modern Language Review; Jul 1, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...give warning is the role of literature. Stanislaw Baranczak, passage cut from the Catholic...rarely allowed to discuss it openly. Stanislaw Lem repeatedly presents human society...where Broch, Roth, Kafka, Schulz, Witkiewicz, Karinthy, Nesvadba, Hasek, and the...
The Avant-Garde gets polished
The Village Voice; Apr 9, 2003; ; 700+ Words THEATER Two Plays by Stanislaw Witkiewicz THE MOTHER By Stanislaw Witkiewicz La MaMa 74A East 4th Street 212-475-7710 THE CRAZY LOCOMOTIVE By Stanislaw Witkiewicz Classical Theatre of Harlem 645 St. Nicholas...
Insatiability.
The Nation; May 6, 1996; ; 700+ Words ...was added to the life of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, the absurdist novelist...illustrious Polish family, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz grew up in Austrian-occupied...libertarian a father as he was, Stanislaw Witkiewicz Sr. was also given to...
FOLKLORE: Five Centuries of Highland Robbers
Polish-American Journal; Jul 1, 1994; ; 700+ Words ...also such luminaries as Henryk Sienkiewicz and Stanislaw Witkiewicz. Sabala was, indeed, a man of many talents...himself on a fiddle he had made. Listening to him, Stanislaw Witkiewicz - painter, writer, journalist - saw the highland...
Early Modern Polish Art
Polish-American Journal; Mar 31, 2003; ; 700+ Words ...critical path prepared for them by painter and writer, Stanislaw Witkiewicz (father of Witkacy, the playwright). Unlike many...Scandinavia. Under the editorship of Polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski (a long-time friend of the Norwegian...
Hanemann.(Brief Article)
World Literature Today; Jan 1, 1997; ; 700+ Words ...Kleist and the Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz. The answer is oblique: Hanemann discusses Kleist and Witkiewicz with a Polish friend; and, experiencing solitude just as Witkiewicz's surviving fiancee did, Hanemann...
'Madman' takes mad look at just who's insane.(Time Out!)(On theater)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); Aug 13, 2004; 606 Words ...Jack Helbig Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1885-1939) has never been...the Nun" is any indication, Witkiewicz has a lot to say about political...with actors capable of acting Witkiewicz's stylized script without over...
Witkacy
Encyclopedia of World Biography; 700+ Words ...and philosopher Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939...Educated at Home Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz was born in Warsaw...father, also named Stanislaw, was a landscape...teacher. The elder Witkiewicz homeschooled his...
Chicago Hopefuls
The Village Voice; Aug 10, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...performed piece by 20th-century Polish visionary Stanislaw Witkiewicz-the latter courtesy of a company that has long...experimental of Chicago companies, and its production of Witkiewicz's The Crazy Locomotive marks the group's third...
Review The Mother Again
The Scotsman; Aug 21, 2002; ; 433 Words ...classic Demarco experience, based on the work of Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1885-1939), playwright, director, and advocate...the relationship between mother and son, which Witkiewicz portrays as suffocatingly close, completely amoral...
Editor's note.(SPECIAL SECTION: ADAM ZAGAJEWKI)
World Literature Today; May 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...authors Tadeusz Rozewicz and Stanislaw Lem were nominees for the award...translator, and critic), Stanislaw Baranczak (poet, critic, and...Tadeusz Borowski, Ewa Lipska, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Ernest Bryll, Anna Frajlich...
The Son Also Rises: Hoffman Ribs Daley
Chicago Sun-Times; May 17, 1995; ; 700+ Words ...Polish authorities, meanwhile, know exactly who isn't buried in the tomb of artist and writer Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. It isn't merely the wrong man, in fact. It is a woman. Seems there was a slipup when...
FOLKLORE: Discovery of Podhale
Polish-American Journal; Apr 1, 1994; ; 658 Words ...in 1803 by a remarkable individual by the name of Stanislaw Staszic who has been called the father of Polish...contemporaries: painters Walery Elajsz-Radzikowski and Stanislaw Witkiewicz. Poets, painters, tourists and the sick came to...
Anthropology's Homer: Michael Young's Malinowski
The Australian Journal of Anthropology; Jan 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...development was his friendship with the deeply troubled artist, author and playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz. Following the suicide of his fiance, Witkiewicz travelled to Australia with Malinowski in 1914, intending to accompany him into the...
`The Mother'
Chicago Sun-Times; Apr 23, 1998; ; 576 Words ...0494 Somewhat recommended Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz's hyper avant-garde play...house of psychotic horrors, Witkiewicz's rambling script soon evaporates...the glaring grotesquerie of Witkiewicz's ranting script. As her...
BLAME IT ON NIETZSCHE
Artforum; Dec 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...the authors he discusses in the book's opening chapters-Defoe, Balzac, Stendhal, Gide, William James, Stanislaw Witkiewicz-were dictated in part by wartime disaster. "In a book picked up / From the ruins, you see a world erupt...
`A Midsummer Night's' Treat in Oak Park
Chicago Sun-Times; Jul 1, 1994; ; 700+ Words ...absurdities of living today," begins its artistic life with the 1923 work "The Madman and the Nun." Playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz adhered to the "pure form" theory that revolted against realism in the theater. "The Madman and the Nun" brings...
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