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all kinds of arrangements or gathered as documents in separate reels. From the point of view of capturing the very approach it is worthwhile to look at one selected Notatnik. “Inspiracje” [Inspirations] defines Hasior’s horizon and shows what he was interested in, how he developed and structured his ideas. Within all the material the topics that intrigued him stand out (even pornography). He makes himself part of the artistic context of his era, which I addressed e.g. during the aforementioned conference. Apart from different fascinating objects gathered at Władysław Hasior Gallery there are: an atlas of Poland with marked monuments and memorials visited by the artist, a model of a monument-chapel of Victory for Zakopane with images of Harnasie highlanders (and a refusal to design the set for erecting a monument of class struggle in the region of Podhale [sic!] on a theatre stage), a vinyl record with Negro spirituals released in Czechoslovakia and recordings of religious songs from the East; there are Letters to Milena, Laokoon, The Flames, Urban Life, all kinds of magazines on psychoanalysis, anthropology or principles of music – it is precisely Notatniki which offers the chance to write anew Hasior’s history and see his art in a new light.
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