Tadeusz Kantor: Collector and historian

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Notes

¹ Here I would like to draw attention Benjamin's critique of authenticity in art and in culture, which emerges as a counter-argument to the contemporary æsthetic writings of Martin Heidegger, who, in his oft-quoted essay, ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’, removes the object/work of art from the social, posits the aura as an æsthetic, spiritual and cultural principle, as well as valorizes the aura as metasocial, metapolitical and metacultural world. This process of æsthetic and cultural essentialism is clearly visible in his well-known discussion of Vincent Van Gogh's painting of a pair of peasant shoes. For a detailed discussion, see Heidegger (2001).

² For a detailed discussion of these two meetings, see Świgęcicki (2004), chapter 3.

³ The cast of The Country House included: Maria Zajacówna (The Mother), Leszek Kubanek (The Steward of the Estate), Hanna Szymahska (The Governess), Stanisław Rychlicki(Nibek),Jan Güntner (The Poet), Tadeusz Walczak (The Factotum), Bogdan Schmidt, Stefania Górniak (The Orphans).

⁴ The cast of The Madman and the Nun included: Jan Güntner (Alexander Walpurg), Hanna Szymańska (Sister Anna), Maria Stangret (Mother Superior), Stanisław Rychlicki (Dr. JanBidello),Tadeusz Korlatowicz (Dr. Ephraim Grün), Bogdan Śmigielski (Professor Ernest Walldorff),Zbigniew Bednarczyk, Tadeusz Kwinta, Józef Wieczorek (The Attendants).

⁵ The participants included: Wiesław Borowski, Zbigniew Gostomski, Edward Krasi???ski.Anka Ptaszkowska, Erna Rosenstein, Mariusz Tchorek, Agnieszka Zółkiewska, Maria Stangret, Alfred Lenica, Krystyn Jarnuszkiewicz and Tadeusz Kantor.

⁶ The cast of Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes included: Lesław Janicki, Wacław Janicki (The Cloakroom Attendants), Maria Stangret (Bestia Domestica), Zofia Kalińska (Princess Sophia), The Audience (40 Mandelbaums), Zbigniew Bednarczyk (Pandeus Clavercourse), Jan Güntner (Tarquinius Flirtius-Umbilicus), Stanisław Gronkowski (Sir Grant Blaguewell-Padlock), Bogdan Grzybowicz (Sir Thomas Blaso de Liza), Jacek Stokłosa (Dr. Don Nino de Gevach), Kazimierz Mikulski (Graf Andre Vladimirovich Tchurnin-Koketayev), Stanisław Rychlicki (The Gypsy), Wiesław Borowski (Oliphant Beedle), Zbigniew Gostomski (The Leader of the Mandelbaums, Goldmann Baruch Teerbroom).