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What do Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907), Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) and Józef Szajna (1922-2008) have in common? Each of the aforementioned artists was a threshold man in Turner's terms, standing both at the intersection of historical epochs and in the face of a visible aesthetic change in culture. Dominika Larionow in her book Limen means threshold. Wyspianski, Kantor, Szajna presents the work of three outstanding artists who used thresholdness, or liminality, as a creative strategy.

In the introduction, the author outlines the theoretical assumptions of the work in a very clear and accessible way, moving from the general thesis (we are all culturally bound to rites of passage) to the fundamental thesis: liminality was the basic creative strategy of three Polish artists of different periods, who performed their multi-faceted proximity, existential and artistic, in an expressive way.

The book provides a number of extremely interesting insights and in-depth, exceptionally pertinent analyses that allow us to look at the issue of liminality in the title, i.e. the ability to transcend boundaries, overcome thresholds, formal and temporal barriers, in visual, theatrical and dramatic creation, on the example of the creative attitudes and achievements of three outstanding artists, interpreted for the first time.
Limen Means Threshold. Wyspianski, Kantor, Szajna is a borderline publication, definitely interdisciplinary, as Dominika Larionow moves freely in the fields of research typical of the workshop of a cultural anatropologist, theatre scholar and art historian.

Dr Dominika Larionow is a lecturer at the Institute of Art History at the University of Łódź, an art and literary scholar specialising in Polish drama and theatre.

The conversation with the author will be moderated by Joanna Biernacka-Płoska from the TVP Theatre Department.