Aktualność i atrakcyjność myśli Tadeusza Peipera – nawiązania i (ko)inspiracje.

The article outlines the current reception of cultural and aesthetic writings of Tadeusz Peiper. Peiper’s theories of art and culture offer pioneering interpretations, which predate later readings and diagnoses of social and artistic phenomena. Moreover, they are widely applied outside of the literature studies, providing theoretical frameworks for research in communication studies, media studies, cultural studies, urban studies, film theory, and architecture theory. Although Peiper was not a visual artist, his influence also surfaces in modern exhibition practices in museums and art galleries. Widely recognized as the author of famous statements on art – for example from his manifesto Miasto. Masa. Maszyna (Metropolis. Mass. Machine) – which remain in popular circulation without most users knowing anything about their author. The article argues that in his artistic views Peiper successfully predicted many paths of development for artistic and social evolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]