Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy Narcotics 9788086264486

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Автор: Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
Название: Narcotics
ISBN: 9788086264486
Издательство: Twisted spoon press
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Монографии о художниках, по искусству

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ISBN-10: 8086264483
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 198
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 12.02.2018
Серия: Image to word
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 32 full-color
Размер: 198 x 175 x 20
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, peyote, morphine, ether + appendices
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In the vein of the well-known drug writings of De Quincey and Baudelaire from a century earlier and those of his contemporaries Walter Benjamin and Jean Cocteau - and foreshadowing the later writings of Aldous Huxley and Carlos Castaneda on psychoactive drugs - Witkacy composed Narcotics in 1930 to discuss and document not only his own experimentation with different substances but the nature of addiction itself and the prevailing social attitude toward drugs, particularly those that were considered acceptable. As life became increasingly mechanized, Witkacy felt that a sense of the metaphysical could only be achieved by artificial means, and like Henri Michaux, he produced an extensive oeuvre of singular visual art while under the influence of a variety of substances.

Meandering, acerbic, and burlesque, rife with neologisms and expressions from German, French, English, and Russian, Witkacy dissects Polish society and the art world as well as himself via the hypocrisy surrounding drug use. Since it was first published in the 1930s, Narcotics has achieved a cult status in Poland where it is considered both a modernist classic and a paragon of Witkiewiczian madness. This edition, the first complete translation in English, includes a second appendix written later, passages from the novel Farewell to Autumn, and 34 color reproductions of a cross section of portraits to show how various substances impacted Witkacys art.

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