Gaweł Łukasz, Stanisław Wyspiański. Życie i twórczość, Kluszczyński Publishing House, Krakow 2007, p. 136, dimensions 22 x 28.5 cm. Numerous illustrations in the text. Publisher's hardcover.
One hundred years after Stanislaw Wyspianski's death, can his works still surprise with anything? After all, everyone has read The Wedding, everyone knows from textbook reproductions of his `Maternity'.... It seems, however, that behind these monumental works, the analysis and interpretation of which have been devoted to dozens of scholarly volumes, a person is often lost - a genius with his feelings, dreams, passions, obsessions, complexes. It is about him that this book tells the story. In an accessible way, it is intended not only to familiarize the Reader with the artist's work, but first of all to show the history of his short - marked by a fatal disease - life. It will therefore include images of those closest to Wyspianski (family, friends, teachers), as well as a picture of the old Kraków, both loved and hated by him. The reader will take a tour of the city, following in the footsteps of one of Poland's greatest artists, learn about the artistic milieu in which his personality matured and crystallized, visit the Kraków School of Fine Arts, and accompany the realization of the artist's greatest works. Against this backdrop, he will also see the Wyspianski we rarely remember today: on the one hand, almost starving, misunderstood and rejected, on the other, an outstanding artist trying to lead a normal family life, and finally a man aware of his civic duties, scrupulously fulfilling his mandate as a city councilman and visiting, for example, a public school....
