Małgorzata Stępnik

Małgorzata Stępnik
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin · Faculty of Political Sciences and Journalism

PhD Hab. in Philosophy
Performing the research (mainly on psychoanalytical interpretations on art), looking for collaborations and feedback.

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This article discusses the œuvre of Artemisia Gentileschi, a prominent Baroque painter who was rediscovered by art historian Roberto Longhi in the 1910s. Today, her art is interpreted through various lenses, including art theory, women’s studies, and psychoanalysis. Gentileschi’s paintings are often “read” in close reference to her painful biograph...
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W 1924 roku Beata Rank, de domo Minzer (1886–1967) publikuje esej opatrzony tytułem: Rola kobiety w ewolucji społeczeństwa. Tekst słynnej polskiej psychoanalityczki poświęcony jest w dużej mierze reinterpretacji (jakże wczesnej) swoistego bestiariusza wypracowanego przez Freudystów. W owej konstelacji figur, zapożyczonych z antycznego imaginarium,...
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In 1924 Beata Rank de domo Minzer (1886 – 1967) publishes an essay whose title translates as: The Role of a Woman in the Evolution of a Society. The text written by an eminent Polish born psychoanalyst is largely devoted to the (very early) reinterpretation of a specific bestiary developed by Freudians. In this constellation of figures, borrowed fr...
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“Let the Sirens Roar”: The Women’s Protests in Poland and the Artistic Response to the Backlash The ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal of 22 October 2020, which tightened the restrictions on reproductive rights in Poland and was adopted in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, sparked strong social opposition and massive demonstrations. The artic...
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This article discusses the motif of the “architecture of transgression”, which is present most implicitly, in Lars von Trier’s The House that Jack Built. The analysis concerns both the construction of cinematic narrative itself and the subtle allusions, inserted in the script, to two architectural metaphors: the Nietzschean (and Jungian) labyrinth...
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This chapter is dedicated to a contemporary Polish artist – Piotr Szmitke (1955-2013), a founder of the original doctrine called “metaverism” (Polish: metaweryzm; French: métavérisme), based on “the category of non-existence”, intelligently juggling with the notion of “truth” (Greek: metá, Latin: verus). Metaverism, both as a concept and as an arti...
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The purpose of this article is to explore the ideological contexts of sculptural works by Northern modernists: Gustav Vigeland (1869–1943) from Norway, Bernhard Hoetger (1874–1949) from Germany, and the Icelander Einar Jónsson (1874–1954). The original iconographies of the Vigelandsanlegget in Oslo, Hoetger’s Platanenhein in Darmstadt, as well as J...
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This paper is concerned with the life and oeuvre of Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenowskaia (1917-1961), unquestionably – one of the most intriguing personalities of 20th century art. She was a filmmaker, film theorist, photographer, dancer and most of all – someone that might be called a radical surrealist and a creative „shamaness”. The author see...
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Tekst opublikowany: M. Stępnik, Forma jako symptom relacji społecznych w kontekście Adolfa Loosa rozważań nad ornamentyką, (w: ) Wybrane problemy edukacji plastycznej dzieci i młodzieży, pod red. A. Boguszewskiej i A. Mazur, Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin 2013, s. 69-80. ISBN: 978-83-7784-272-0
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Defiance, independence and transgression for sale. On social rituals of creating and receiving the "difficult" art. According to Marshall McLuhan: "Art is anything you can get away with". To what extent is this statement correct nowadays? Is there any space for true defiance, a niche left for the last outsiders and contestators in today's art worl...
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Wersja opublikowana: M. Stępnik, Bunt, niezależność i transgresja na sprzedaż. O społecznych rytuałach odbioru oraz tworzenia sztuki "trudnej", (w:) Artysta-kurator-instytucja-odbiorca. Przestrzenie autonomii i modele krytyki, pod red. M. Kosińskiej, K. Sikorskiej i A. Skórzyńskiej, Wyd. Galerii Miejskiej Arsenał, Poznań 2012, s. 158-188. ISBN: 978...
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Over the last decades Reykjavik has transformed from a culturally insignificant place into one of the most significant art centers in the world, both in the realm of so-called high arts and alternative culture. Its cultural life inspires and even astonishes. Especially those who come to visit Reykjavik for the first time may be overwhelmed by the n...
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The Notion of Visual literacy in the Context of Sociology of Art. The Work of Art as a Social Mirror The purpose of the present article is to show the rudimentary assumptions and the main search directions in the field of sociology of art. The author also emphasizes the question of the parallels linking the sociological reflection on art with the...