This book comprises the latest revisiting of Kantor’s artistic œuvre by international authors reflecting drawings, paintings, manifestos and theatrical productions. Comparative studies enrich the variety of interpretative perspectives. Authors demonstrate what Kantor’s legacy has in common with the works of other 20th- and 21st-century artists.

Katarzyna Fazan is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University and the L. Solski State Drama School in Krakow. Anna R. Burzy?ska, PhD, is a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Marta Bry? is a postgraduate in Theatre Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Contents: Katarzyna Fazan: Tadeusz Kantor - Yesterday and Today – Renato Palazzi: Kantor’s Greatness: An Inconvenient Heritage – Loriano Della Rocca: Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, 8th December 1990 - 8th December 2010 – Krzysztof Miklaszewski: The Actor in Kantor’s Theatre: A Visionary’s Questions, a Practitioner’s Answers and a Contemporary Post Script – Andrzej We?mi?ski: Function and Significance of the Theatre Company in the Development of Cricot 2 Productions – Lech Stangret: The Role of Drawing in the Creation of Tadeusz Kantor’s Self-mythology – Dominika ?arionow: Tadeusz Kantor’s Mannequin and Edward G. Craig’s Über-Marionette: An Outline of an Idea – Anna R. Burzy?ska: Returns of the Rhinoceros – Katarzyna Osi?ska: Don Quixote according to Kantor: Between Reality and Fiction – Ma?gorzata Paluch-Cybulska: Tadeusz Kantor: ... Velázquez’s Infantas as Sacred Relics or Madonnas – Josep Maria de Sagarra Àngel: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Emotions: Apropos the Spanish Reception of the Artist – Amos Fergombe: The Door, Frame or Transcendental Threshold in the Work of Tadeusz Kantor – Klaudiusz ?wi?cicki: Anthropology of History and Memory in the Theatrical Work of Tadeusz Kantor – Grzegorz Nizio?ek: Anxiety and What Next … – Wojciech Owczarski: The Theatre of Dreams in The Theatre of Death – Cécile Coutin: de Tadeusz Kantor – Mateusz Chaberski: What Can Tadeusz S?obodzianek’s Tell Us about ? The Political Dimension of Memory in the Work of Tadeusz Kantor – Marek Pieni??ek: Kantor - Reactivating One’s Own Reality: Late Productions by Cricot 2 – Michal Kobialka: Epilogue. Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Personal Confessions: Notes on Late Style – Jan K?ossowicz: The Anatomy Lesson: Kantor’s Plots – Pawe? Stangret: Reading Tadeusz Kantor 2 – Katarzyna Tokarska-Stangret: «Non omnis moriar» of the Theatre Artist – Jean-Pierre Thibaudat: Autour de la photographie de Wielopole – Anna Halczak: CRICOTEKA - «The Necessity of Transmission» – Marie-Thérèse Vido-Rzewuska: Kantor, Schulz, Malczewski, Wyspia?ski: Some Paradoxes – Andrzej Turowski: Dazzling Afterimages – Jaromir Jedli?ski: Kantor and Beuys: Parallel Processes? – Rafa? Solewski: Heritage and Identity in Tadeusz Kantor’s Œuvre and Postmodernism – Zbigniew Osi?ski: Tadeusz Kantor – Jerzy Grotowski: Two Concepts of Theatre and Art – Ruggero Bianchi: Minor Notes on a Borderline Artist – Klaus Dermutz: «The Horror of War and/of The World, with the Circus Mixed.» Reflections by Anselm Kiefer on Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre – Katarzyna Fazan: Shadows of the Polish Odysseus: Wyspia?ski - Kantor – Grzegorzewski – Uta Schorlemmer: Present Absence in Tadeusz Kantor’s and Christoph Schlingensief’s Late Performances.