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"Embriologia w epoce baroku i rokoko" Tadeusza Bilikiewicza, wyobrażenia początków życia i kultura wizualna

2024, 68, No. 4

Matylda Szewczyk

0000-0002-5029-3935

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Polish Studies

DOI

10.31338/2657-599X.ph.2024-4.8

Publication date

28.02.2025

Publishing model

open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

arts and humanities

Discipline

philosophy, history, archeology, linguistics, literary studies, culture and religion studies, arts studies, polish studies

Language of publication

Polish

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Abstract

The article is a discussion and interpretation of the book 'Embriologia w epoce baroku i rokoko' by Tadeusz Bilikiewicz, originally published in German in 1932 under the title 'Die Embryologie im Zeitalter des Barock und des Rokoko' and issued for the first time in Polish in 2024, translated and edited by Artur Koterski. The contemporary significance of this publication will be discussed, especially related to its reflections on the cultural conditions of imagining and representing reproduction (embryos and the process of embryogenesis) from the perspective of visual culture (Nicholas Mirzoeff). Bilikiewicz’s insights into historical representations of the beginnings of life, which he set against a broader worldview of the time, help to raise awareness of the cultural conventionality of our own ways of seeing and describing the world.

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