<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article provides a report on research conducted on the creative activity of Jerzy Wróblewski, a Polish author of comics published in the book <italic>„Urodzony, żeby rysować”. Twórczość komiksowa Jerzego Wróblewskiego, “Born to Draw.” Jerzy Wróblewski’s Comic Art</italic> (Jaworski, 2015). It is the first study of this kind in Poland. From this point of view, it contains not only a body of knowledge in the form of a monograph of the comic writer’s artistic creativity, but it also includes a developed research model. The structure of this model, combining traditional monographic narrative with broad historical, political and social context, can be used in the analyses of artistic accomplishments of other authors of Polish comics. The presented study addresses the need for scientific explorations in this field, but also for raising the value of those parts of Polish modern culture which were marginalised as ‘worse’ for many years, first for political reasons, then for cultural ones. It appears that the time has come to examine critically the artistic creativity of important figures of Polish popular culture (in this case of comics) objectively and without ideological prejudice, and recognise them as full authors of Polish culture. Jerzy Wróblewski is among them and that is why the book is about him.</p></abstract>

The article provides a report on research conducted on the creative activity of Jerzy Wróblewski, a Polish author of comics published in the book „Urodzony, żeby rysować”. Twórczość komiksowa Jerzego Wróblewskiego, “Born to Draw.” Jerzy Wróblewski’s Comic Art (Jaworski, 2015). It is the first study of this kind in Poland. From this point of view, it contains not only a body of knowledge in the form of a monograph of the comic writer’s artistic creativity, but it also includes a developed research model. The structure of this model, combining traditional monographic narrative with broad historical, political and social context, can be used in the analyses of artistic accomplishments of other authors of Polish comics. The presented study addresses the need for scientific explorations in this field, but also for raising the value of those parts of Polish modern culture which were marginalised as ‘worse’ for many years, first for political reasons, then for cultural ones. It appears that the time has come to examine critically the artistic creativity of important figures of Polish popular culture (in this case of comics) objectively and without ideological prejudice, and recognise them as full authors of Polish culture. Jerzy Wróblewski is among them and that is why the book is about him.

Popular Author of Popular Art

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications

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The article provides a report on research conducted on the creative activity of Jerzy Wróblewski, a Polish author of comics published in the book „Urodzony,...

Popular Author of Popular Art

Published Online: Jun 08, 2016

Page range: 118 - 126

Received: Feb 20, 2016

Accepted: May 01, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ctra-2016-0009

Keywords
Wróblewski, Comic book, Popular culture, Popular art

© 2016 Marcin Jaworski, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Popular Author of Popular Art

Published Online: Jun 08, 2016

Page range: 118 - 126

Received: Feb 20, 2016

Accepted: May 01, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ctra-2016-0009

KeywordsWróblewski, Comic book, Popular culture, Popular art

© 2016 Marcin Jaworski, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Wróblewski, Comic book, Popular culture, Popular art