{"title":"Polski feminizm - paradygmaty","authors":"S. Witkowska","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0012.9855","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The issue of feminist art struggles with a great problem. In my study\nI focus solely on Polish artists, and thus on the genealogy of feminist art\nin Poland. Although all the presented activities brought up the feminist\nthread, in many cases a dissonance occurs on the level of the artists’ own\nreflections. There is a genuine reluctance of many Polish artists to use the\nterm “feminist” about their art. They dissent from such categorization as\nif afraid that the very name will bring about a negative reception of their\nart. And here, in my opinion, a paradox appears, because despite such\nstatements, their creativity itself is in fact undoubtedly feminist.\nI think that Polish artists express themselves through their art in an\nunambiguous way – they show their feminine „I”. The woman is displayed in\ntheir statement about themselves, about the experiences, their body, their\nsexuality. Feminism defined the concept of art in a new way. The statement\nthat art has no gender is a myth. The activities of women-artists\nare broader and broader, also in Poland women become more and more\nnoticed and appreciated. Feminist art does not feature a separate artistic\nlanguage, it rather features a tendency towards realism, lent by photography\nor video, which reflects the autonomy of the female reception of the\nworld. It should be stated that feminism is a socially needed phenomenon,\nand its critique drives successive generations of women-artists.\n\n","PeriodicalId":431350,"journal":{"name":"DYSKURS. PISMO NAUKOWO-ARTYSTYCZNE ASP WE WROCŁAWIU","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"DYSKURS. PISMO NAUKOWO-ARTYSTYCZNE ASP WE WROCŁAWIU","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.9855","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
The issue of feminist art struggles with a great problem. In my study
I focus solely on Polish artists, and thus on the genealogy of feminist art
in Poland. Although all the presented activities brought up the feminist
thread, in many cases a dissonance occurs on the level of the artists’ own
reflections. There is a genuine reluctance of many Polish artists to use the
term “feminist” about their art. They dissent from such categorization as
if afraid that the very name will bring about a negative reception of their
art. And here, in my opinion, a paradox appears, because despite such
statements, their creativity itself is in fact undoubtedly feminist.
I think that Polish artists express themselves through their art in an
unambiguous way – they show their feminine „I”. The woman is displayed in
their statement about themselves, about the experiences, their body, their
sexuality. Feminism defined the concept of art in a new way. The statement
that art has no gender is a myth. The activities of women-artists
are broader and broader, also in Poland women become more and more
noticed and appreciated. Feminist art does not feature a separate artistic
language, it rather features a tendency towards realism, lent by photography
or video, which reflects the autonomy of the female reception of the
world. It should be stated that feminism is a socially needed phenomenon,
and its critique drives successive generations of women-artists.