Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.31664/zu.2023.112.04
Literary and Art Publications of Vlado Kristl
Ana Marija Habjan
orcid.org/0000-0003-3676-1998
; samostalna istraživačica, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In the artistic oeuvre of Vlado Kristl (Zagreb, 1923 – Munich, 2004), a respected film author and painter, the literary segment also holds a significant place. Literary and art publications were created simultaneously with his painting and film work, encompassing a wide range of printed materials, from prose and poetry books to artists’ books, portfolios, letters, and faxed messages — a form that Kristl also used as an art medium. Kristl personally designed, illustrated, and most often published these authorial editions by himself. He predominantly designed them with minimal economic resources but exceptionally innovatively, using various typographies, seals, his own handwriting, illustrations, and photographs. The bound works, with a distinctly creative approach to content and design, belong to artistic production closely related to both film and painting. They are propelled by the same poetics marked by processuality and experimentation, with timeless themes and topics, such as the role of the artist, freedom, repression, war and resistance, and the relationship towards authority. Everything he filmed, painted, drew, or wrote was connected by the same fundamental need for shaping and demonstrative expression of a kind of artistic worldview, a value system that encompassed his understanding of art as well as his attitude towards society and the political order. Just as he often copied his paintings and changed scenarios or montages, he also revised and modified his poetic and prose texts in his books, using those already published as a kind of ready-made material. In this way, he transformed his existing works into new ones, questioning their meanings and giving the entire oeuvre a character of an unfinished work to which he constantly returned, seeking to redefine it. Like in all other media, Kristl approached books and their conventions provocatively and destructively: playing with language and its trans - parency, transcending the usual relationship between textual and visual contents, as well as the format and functional parts of editions, using existing works, fragmenting them, and leaving the final sequence of the text to chance. With the exception of the first two poetry collections written in Croatian, all other books were in German, a language that was not Kristl’s native but one he knew well even before coming to Germany. Kristl’s authorial editions, as a special form of artistic expression in the form of a book, are carefully thoughtout projects that directly connect literary achievements with reproductions of drawings and paintings, treating them as material that is secondarily processed, collaged, and otherwise shaped, creating a new type of artefact. As such, they represent a multimedia form of artistic expression that conveys the message both verbally and visually, uniting both languages into a specific narrative and visual form.
Ključne riječi
Vlado Kristl; artists’ books; literary and art publications; Munich; Hamburg
Hrčak ID:
315658
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.7.2023.
Posjeta: 100 *