The Aspect of “The Death of the Author” of Wanda Gołkowska’s Art
Journal: Roczniki Humanistyczne
Year: 2025

Wanda Gołkowska (1925–2013) was an outstanding artist associated with Wrocław’s artistic milieu whose abundant oeuvre underwent many transformations. This article focuses on one stage of her artistic and creative endeavors, for which the 1968 exhibition at Mona Lisa Gallery was a turning point. The objects presented in the series “Open Compositions” became a sort of canvas for my deliberations on the reasons of transformations of artists’ status in the face of social, political and cultural tran