The Tradition of the Destruction of Tradition
Stangret Paweł (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
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The paper focuses on the attributes of the polish avant-garde, especially in the modern polish theatre. In Tadeusz Kantor’s words: it is „the tradition of the destruction of tradition”. The most important and infl uential tradition in Poland – since the nineteenth century – is romanticism and its legacy. Twentieth-century artists saw it as both traditional and modern. It was a paradox of the polish avant-garde of the last century (until now). The article demonstrates how Polish theatre directors have fought with romantic aesthetics and the cultural identity it helped shape.
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