Między empatią a naukowością dyskursu krytycznego. Młodopolskie i międzywojenne style odbioru twórczości Ksawerego Dunikowskiego

This article is an attempt to compare the ways of understanding and interpreting art during the late 19th and early 20th century with the art criticism of the interwar years. To this end, the author presents an array of critical texts devoted to a single artist -sculptor, Xavier Dunikowski, who was active at the junction of the two eras. The focus of attention, however, is not only on the critics' views and opinions of the artist's work, but also on the nature of their language of expression, their discourse, and their criteria of evaluation. A look at the styles of reception predominant in each era will allow the author to pinpoint the transformation of art criticism that took place after World War I, as well as the prevailing patterns in the language of interpretation. This will make it possible to paint a fuller, more complex image of the art criticism of that time