O wydawaniu książek z obrazami i rysunkami Witkacego

Abstract

The authors of the article, having looked through about a dozen books which apart from texts contained artworks by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, decided to share whit the readers their remarks concerning editorship, typography and history of art about publishing the artist’s paintings and drawings. Generally, they commented in a chronological order the most important editions from the late 70s and 80s: Stanislawa Ignacego Witkiewicza wiersze i rysunki ( Poems and drawings by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz ) by Anna Micinska and Urszula Kenar; Witkacy-malarz ( Witkacy-the painter ) by Irena Jakimowicz; a catalogue of the artwork collection from Slupsk Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. Witkacy 1885–1939 by Anna Krzyzanowska-Hajdukiewicz and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz by Piotr Piotrowski, as well as the ones from the 90s. Katalog dziel malarskich ( A Catalogue of Painted Works ) by Irena Jakimowicz in cooperation with Anna Żakiewicz, the album Witkacy. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. Życie i tworczośc ( Witkacy. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. Life and Works ) by Anna Micinska, and two editions of the catalogue Witkacy. Kolekcja dziel Stanislawa Ignacego Witkiewicza w Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego w Slupsku ( Witkacy. A Collection of Works by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz in Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego in Slupsk ). Beata Zgodzinska shared many remarks and digressions of the curator of Slupsk collection, responsible for catalogues of collections, exhibitions and numerous publications devoted to Witkacy. The authors believe that it is always worth to pay attention to the visual aspects of a publication and to raise awareness among editors, technical editors, text compositors and graphic designers about for whom and why they are making a book. The manner of submitting a work of art for printing (bleed, framing, photographing without a frame, colors of the reproduction) not only constitutes the aesthetic side of a publication, but is of fundamental importance for some recipients – art historians or students, for whom the reproductions included in available editions are often a basis for research and elaborations.