Zboralska, Marta Aleksandra;
(2020)
The Art of Being Together: Inside the Studio of Henryk Stażewski and Edward Krasiński.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis focuses on the live-in Warsaw studio of Henryk Stażewski and Edward Krasiński, representatives of two avant-gardes (pre- and post-war), in order to pursue key problems in abstraction and conceptualism. Concentrating on the intergenerational dialogue between the artists, it interrogates the significance of cohabitation as a form of broadly understood collaboration, posing wider questions regarding intersection and interruption in twentieth-century art, in Poland and beyond. Positing working together, rather than making work together, as a form of dialogue, its chapters deal with a wide range of artistic production originating from the shared space of the studio: from painting and sculpture incorporating domestic objects (Chapter 1), through interior design in which colour plays a key part as a source of both visual and mental stimulation (Chapter 2), to writing in poetry and prose (Chapter 3). Through focusing on these under-researched aspects of their practices, my dissertation establishes the ways in which Stażewski and Krasiński can be seen as engaged in the process of mediation: between themselves and other artists (as well as writers, philosophers and even psychiatrists), and consequently artistic forms and movements. Striving towards a redefinition of the genealogy of influence, I argue that the complex history of the studio – from a busy shared space, through its adaptation by Krasiński after his cohabitant’s death, to its contemporary preservation – illuminates the importance of reciprocal permeation (intergenerationality) as a tool for analysing artistic relationships, therefore challenging the unidirectional timeline of art history. Seen through the prism of simultaneity rather than sequentially, the studio becomes a place of misplacements – both material and, as a consequence, conceptual.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | The Art of Being Together: Inside the Studio of Henryk Stażewski and Edward Krasiński |
| Event: | UCL |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2020. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History of Art |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10092838 |
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