Z półki Mariana Turwida — zagadnienia estetyczne w księgozbiorze bydgoskiego artysty

Since the late 1990s, the Dr. Witold Bełza Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Bydgoszcz has housed the legacy of Marian Turwid – writer, poet, painter, educator, and publicist. The collection comprises a vast collection of books, containing many interesting titles. It attests to Turwid’s passions and interests and provides a glimpse into his contacts with figures in culture and science. It also includes publications by philosophers. This is a closed collection, never made available to the public, so the notes contained within the books are undoubtedly Turwid’s and can provide significant insights into research. The author found six figures from the world of philosophy on the Bydgoszcz artist’s shelves (Maritain Jacques, Stefan Morawski, Michał Sobeski, Stefan Szuman, Mieczysław Wallis, and Władysław Witwicki), but focused on only two of them, Szuman and Witwicki, in order to expand on the topic of aesthetics (and especially aesthetic education) in the article. In the works of Szuman and Witwicki, the author identifies passages highlighted by Turwid himself and relates these to specific press articles by the writer. In many journalistic texts, she finds threads connecting the artist with the aesthetic reflections of both Szuman and Witwicki. The author demonstrates the high coherence of the presented visions, the numerous themes of aesthetic education and cultural pedagogy in Turwid’s work, and the influence of his philosophical publications on his press output. The topic under discussion expands the existing interpretations of Turwid’s achievements and opens his work to a philosophical plane.