Published : 2026-03-30

Damage, Disintegration and Ruins in Wrocław Post-War Sculpture by Jerzy Boroń

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The article deals with the problem of ruins and disintegration, accompanying war damage, artistically depicted in Wrocław post-war sculpture, associated with the local State Higher School of Fine Arts, later the Academy of Fine Arts. Selected sculptures by Jerzy Boroń – a witness to urban ruin, understood both metaphorically (as degradation of the survivors) and literally (as destruction of urban areas) – were used to discuss the existential figuration (residual and organic) and non-representational spatial constructions, which are a compensatory evocation of disintegration caused by the war cataclysm. Based on the interdisciplinary theory of affect and affective memory as well as psychoanalytic compensation, it has been proved that the sculptural image of ruins and entropy is constantly present and stylistically reinterpreted in the art of Boroń and Wrocław sculpture.

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Jerzy Boroń, sculpture, affect, affective memory, damage, ruins



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Tomczak, K. (2026). Damage, Disintegration and Ruins in Wrocław Post-War Sculpture by Jerzy Boroń: brak. Roczniki Kulturoznawcze, 17(1), 103–124. https://doi.org/10.18290/rkult26171.6

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Roczniki Kulturoznawcze · ISSN 2082-8578 | eISSN 2544-5219 | DOI: 10.18290/rkult

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