The paper aims to analyse the relationship between the city space and the art present in public spaces and narrative located therein. Analysis of selected examples of contemporary art in urban space and literature allows the conclusion, that interdisciplinary narrativity descending from a literary work, allows for the transfer of meanings from public art objects to the city space and individual narratives of recipients. Not just the meanings, that the artists intend to convey, but also the meanings individually interpreted by those, who observe the work.

The author in the terms of idealisation theory of science explicates two visions of history represented by positivism (Hempel) and narrativism (White) and paraphrases some paradoxes of historical narrative elaborated by mentioned-above representatives of these standpoints what is argument for the unity of science presupposed by idealisational theory of science.