Review article
https://doi.org/10.32004/k.56.3-4.4
DOUBLE PORTRAITS: TOWNS AND THEIR ARTISTS. First Double Portrait: Bezeredi Versus Mihinjač (A Comparative Analysis of Lujo Bezeredi's and Đuro Mihinjač's Literary Discourses)
Emilija Kovač
orcid.org/0000-0002-6539-646X
; Učitejljski fakultet u Čakovcu, Hrvatska
Abstract
SUMMARY
The work of two Croatian artists is analyzed; that of Lujo Bezeredi, and Đuro Mihinjač, who cultivated their literary description alongside with their visual arts discourse. Despite of all the differences in their literary, as well as visual art expression, they are compared in respect to their passion for complexity of statement, bearing in mind that literacy for both was a secondary engagement which they lived sincerely and intensively, but in their poetry not as diversely and researching as in their visual art. The two individuals and their opuses are not made equal by this parallel: all the differences are still differences, and they are as significant and essential for profiling an artist’s identity following the path of good old structuralists, to whom form is also content, and is included in the overall insight of a work of art. Despite occasional significant reception in a wider area, by working in their individual imaginative spaces, they remained rather enclosed in their local coordinates, from which they were occasionally drawn out by some fortunate circumstance, as in the concrete situation when Lujo Bezeredi’s book of poems was published.
Keywords
: grotesque; expressionism, existentialism; social engagement; “krugovaši”
Hrčak ID:
315250
URI
Publication date:
5.11.2023.
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