Post by pjotr on Oct 29, 2015 14:24:49 GMT 1
Dear Bonobo and Jeanne,
The year 2015 marks the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Tadeusz Kantor, an avant-garde Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. This '100 year anniversary' is being honoured worldwide as the "Year of Tadeusz Kantor" announced by UNESCO.
Born in Wielopole Skrzyńskie, Galicia (then in Austria-Hungary, now in Poland), Kantor graduated from the Cracow Academy in 1939. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, he founded the Independent Theatre, and served as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków as well as a director of experimental theatre in Kraków from 1942 to 1944. After the war, he became known for his avant-garde work in stage design including designs for Saint Joan (1956) and Measure for Measure (1956). Specific examples of such changes to standard theatre were stages that extended out into the audience, and the use of mannequins as real-life actors.
Kantor is renowned for his theatre performances which were staged in Poland and abroad. Kantor's life and art reflected the Polish reality of the different periods of the 20th century. They included the multi-cultural towns of the inter-war period, the harsh times of the nazi occupation and the post-war period of communism.
I read about Tadeusz Kantor in the new bimonthly english language magazine about Central- and Eastern-Europe 'New Eastern Europe', which I bought at the Bruna book store at the station of Nijmegen on my way the Abbey of Berne in Heeswijk-Dinther, saturday morning. Nijmegen is a university city and therefor has more international magazines in it's book stores than Arnhem, a city of only vocational universities. Therefor I prefer the intellectual and cultural climate of Nijmegen. New Eastern Europe is co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the great programma "Eastern Dimension of Polish Foreign Policy 2015". The essays and texts in New Eastern Europe were possible due to the fact that it was co-financed by the City of Kraków and the cooperation of the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław.
If you can buy this magazine or read it in your grand café with reading table or library would be fine. I can't copy the texts over here unfortunately due to copy rights.
This is the cover of the magazine I bought in Nijmegen with the excellent essays and articles about Tadeusz Kantor
www.neweasterneurope.eu/
The year 2015 marks the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Tadeusz Kantor, an avant-garde Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. This '100 year anniversary' is being honoured worldwide as the "Year of Tadeusz Kantor" announced by UNESCO.
Born in Wielopole Skrzyńskie, Galicia (then in Austria-Hungary, now in Poland), Kantor graduated from the Cracow Academy in 1939. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, he founded the Independent Theatre, and served as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków as well as a director of experimental theatre in Kraków from 1942 to 1944. After the war, he became known for his avant-garde work in stage design including designs for Saint Joan (1956) and Measure for Measure (1956). Specific examples of such changes to standard theatre were stages that extended out into the audience, and the use of mannequins as real-life actors.
Kantor is renowned for his theatre performances which were staged in Poland and abroad. Kantor's life and art reflected the Polish reality of the different periods of the 20th century. They included the multi-cultural towns of the inter-war period, the harsh times of the nazi occupation and the post-war period of communism.
I read about Tadeusz Kantor in the new bimonthly english language magazine about Central- and Eastern-Europe 'New Eastern Europe', which I bought at the Bruna book store at the station of Nijmegen on my way the Abbey of Berne in Heeswijk-Dinther, saturday morning. Nijmegen is a university city and therefor has more international magazines in it's book stores than Arnhem, a city of only vocational universities. Therefor I prefer the intellectual and cultural climate of Nijmegen. New Eastern Europe is co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the great programma "Eastern Dimension of Polish Foreign Policy 2015". The essays and texts in New Eastern Europe were possible due to the fact that it was co-financed by the City of Kraków and the cooperation of the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe in Wrocław.
If you can buy this magazine or read it in your grand café with reading table or library would be fine. I can't copy the texts over here unfortunately due to copy rights.
This is the cover of the magazine I bought in Nijmegen with the excellent essays and articles about Tadeusz Kantor
www.neweasterneurope.eu/
