Urszula Czartoryska, “Reaching Out into a New Dimension,” translated from Polish by Joanna Wolańska, originally published as “Sięgnięcie w granice nowego wymiaru,” in Od pop-artu do sztuki konceptualnej (Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1973), 230–243 (excerpt)

Urszula Czartoryska published extensively on contemporary art, especially photography, and was a curator at Museum Sztuki in Lodz. She discusses Minimal art and Land art, making reference to Daniel Buren and Polish artists such as Zbigniew Gostomski. She argues for the antitheatricality of Minimalism based on its self-referentiality and, quoting extensively from LeWitt, Heizer, and Oppenheim, contrasts the premises of Land art with Christo, who “violated nature”. Certain groups of artists developed the concept of the universal language of art unlike Jacquet, Snow, or Pierzgalski who referred to the recipient’s knowledge about the world he or she was familiar with. Artists representing the tendency under discussion challenged the accepted truths that allowed for distinguishing sculptures from industrial products on the basis of their external appearance. Minimal art addressed problems of the relationship between the idea conceived by the artist and the reception of his work.