Sztuka i polityka. Tekst Władysława Strzemińskiego "O sztuce rosyjskiej. Notatki" jako gest taktyczny

In discussions on the issue of Władysław Strzemiński's social-political views, the text ”On Russian Art. Notes” was often referred to, interpreting it as a political manifesto and an expression of the artist's anti-communism or anti-Bolshevism. In the article I claim that the text should rather be considered in terms of ”tactics”: the analysis of artists' tactics in post-revolutionary Russia should be seen in it, and the text itself should be treated as a complex tactical gesture. Strzemiński aimed at tactically separating modern art from relations and associations with ”Bolshevism”, because he wanted to build for it a cultural, social and political capital in Poland of the early 1920s, overwhelmed by a collective fear of the ”spectre of Bolshevism”.