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Self-Portrait
| 'The very fact of
individual existence here on earth implies irony, trick-playing,
sticking one's tongue out like a clown.'
Bruno Schultz, 1935, comparing his own work to Witkacy's
'Witkacy was avant-garde in his personal style, the hallmarks of which were an aggressive blend of provocation and exhibitionism, extreme vulnerability concealed beneath the bravado of a self-chosen role as a buffoon, and a marked propensity for immolation and martyrdom' Daniel Gerould & CS Durer, from the introduction to The Madman and the Nun (NY: Applause, 1989) |