Rocznik Komparatystyczny

The paper covers theoretical, culture-related basic research on the comparative analysis of the theory of visual arts and the literary theory. It focuses on the anthropological and cultural analysis of the contemporary phenomenon of mutual penetration of arts. The purpose of the research is to gain knowledge on the social and cultural transformations on the basis of an analysis of a discourse in the photographic and literary attempts. The hybrid (photography and literature) will be the research material in this project. The thorough consideration of the relations between photographic images and text, and their structural dependencies, has not been done yet. The assessment of the social aspect of the changes – the impact of the hegemony of an image on the model of perceiving and on the cultural representation – has also been omitted. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, the acquisition of knowledge on the two phenomena which shape the contemporary model of culture in the perspective of historical changes. Both literature and photography are currently and historically the basic models of representation, which also record the changes in the perception of the world. The present transformation of the relation between the analysed fields has not yet been properly and innovatively described.