Tekstografie ojczenaszowe. Próba refleksji antropologicznej

Abstract

The Lord’s Prayer (Pater noster) is one of the most important texts of Christianity of all denominations, with a double – liturgical and everyday (private) – dimension. It has always been the object, motif and theme of various studies that result in the language and image artifacts, so it can be treated as the root paradigm (the term by Victor Turner). The subject of the description conceived as a study of four related cases are: the painting series by Jozef Krzesz, transferred at the beginning of the 20th century to a luxury album publication, a series of postcards by Adam Setkowicz from the First World War, a fleeting List otwarty do narodu polskiego (Open Letter to the Polish Nation) by priest Dionizy Bączkowski from 1918 and a portfolio of graphic works by Krystyna Wroblewska from 1950. Their common ground is the form of verbal-visual composition (visual act), variously constructed and functionally pragmatically differentiated, in a different way establishing the relationship with the recipient. The author, without assuming a priori theoretical approach, creates a “dense description”, in which he characterizes various social practices (writing, image, music and performative), while constantly, in the background of the main text, referring to the 20th-century and recent reflection on image and visuality. The key question that emerges from the text is the concept of experience, within contemporary anthropology most deeply rooted in phenomenological and hermeneutic reflection.