Artyści modernistyczni jako mniejszość

Abstract

In the text Modernist artists as a minority G. Matuszek tries to apply the category of minoritiesto artistic groups, focusing primarily on the situation of artists of early modernismcaptured in broader contexts. The author shows that artistic environments are often ina “minority situation”, although this minority fulfills only some elements of the ‘hard’ definitions. Psychological dimension plays a significant role here — the subjective feelingof ‘being a minority’ and the expression of distinctiveness, and the linking factors includerecognizing the world in the state of crisis, alienation and (self)exclusion, anthropologicalsimilarity (theories of higher evolutionary development) etc.