Komplikowanie świata. Nauka i sztuka Stefana Themersona

Abstract

The article describes the works of Stefan Themerson, focusing on the combination of science and art in the works of the artist, as well as the inspirations he drew both from the work of the classics, such as Tacitus, Thomas Moore, Maeterlinck (from whom he derived the concept of referring the phenomena in the human world to the life of insects), as well from avant-garde writers, such as, for example, Apollinaire. On the one hand, the author expresses his sympathies to the skepticism of the Enlightenment, but on the other hand, he is inspired by avant-garde ideas, directing his interest towards the issues of expressiveness of the world through language, the language of poetry, the problem of the sign and the meaning, as well as towards creating a project of semantic poetry, which was to familiarize the recipient with the dictionary meaning of the subject of the text.