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Na tropach tajemniczego M.K

2017

The article titled Artists and Philistines, published in 1897 in the “Kurier Niedzielny”, a moderated weekly with a compromising orientation (publisher: Maria Chełmońska, editors: Ludomir Grendyszyński), is an example of a voice about artist-society relationship typical of the end of the century. The author takes an indirect position: he criticizes both the anti-art social climate and the artists themselves, who wrongly accuse a society solidly fulfilling its duties of being “philistine”. The peculiarities of the script, the cryptic code and the ambiguous attitude of the journalist, as well as a number of clues in literary and artistic life, constitute a set of data that hypothetically prop…