Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.25819/dedo/135
Can One Squander Their Purest Affections on Gruesome Foreign Bodies? Remarks on the Doll Motif in the Oeuvre of Marek Piasecki
Alternate Title
Kann man seine lauterste Wärme an einen grausigen Fremdkörper verschwenden? Anmerkungen zum Puppenmotiv im Oeuvre von Marek Piasecki
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Article
Author
Subjects
Marek Piasecki
doll
photographs
objects
abject
Source
denkste: puppe - multidisziplinäre zeitschrift für mensch-puppen-diskurse; Bd. 5 Nr. 1 (2022): Puppen und Puppenfiguren in Narrativen – Themen und Motive in Literatur, Kunst, Theater, Film, Medien, Alltags- und Populärkulturen ; 99-106
Issue Date
2022
Publisher
universi - Universitätsverlag Siegen
Abstract
The 1950s and 1960s series of black-and-white photographs by the Polish artist Marek Piasecki (1935-2011) entitled The Doll as well as the objects created in the same period in which the artist wove the motif of a doll are analysed in the context of the doll text by Rainer Maria Rilke and the work of Hans Bellmer, complemented by reflections by Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska, Georges Didi-Huberman and other contemporary authors.. Fragmentation of bodies in these works by Piasecki is not a device of eroticization or fetishization, as in Bellmer, but makes one aware of their defenceless fragility and mortality. As a typical abject Piasecki’s doll attract as much as they put one off; their presence verges on unbearable as it awakens the anxiety of death.
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