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The Age of Chopin
This multidisciplinary collection addresses Chopin's life and oeuvre in various cultural contexts of his era. Fourteen original essays by internationally-known scholars suggest new connections between his compositions and the intellectual, literary, artistic, and musical environs of Warsaw and Paris. Individual essays consider representations of Chopin in the visual arts; reception in the United States and in Poland; analytical aspects of the mazurkas and waltzes; and political, literary, and gender aspects of Chopin's music and legacy. Several senior scholars represent the fields of American, Western European, and Polish history; Slavic literature; musicology; music theory; and art history.
Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland
"This book represents the most sophisticated historiographical approach to understanding nation-building. Patrice Dabrowski demonstrates tremendous erudition... making brilliant use of contemporary newspapers and journals, as well as archival material." -- Larry Wolff, Boston College, author of Inventing Eastern Europe Patrice M. Dabrowski investigates the nation-building activities of Poles during the decades preceding World War I, when the stateless Poles were minorities within the empires of Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. Could Poles maintain a sense of national identity, or would they become Germans, Austrians, or Russians? Dabrowski demonstrates that Poles availed themselves of the ability to celebrate anniversaries of past deeds and personages to strengthen their nation from within, providing a ground for a national discourse capable of unifying Poles across political boundaries and social and cultural differences. Public commemorations such as the jubilee of the writer Jozef Kraszewski, the bicentennial of the Relief of Vienna, and the return to Poland of the remains of the poet Adam Mickiewicz are reconstructed here in vivid detail.
Out Looking in
"Cavanaugh's scholarship is distinguished by several qualities: detailed knowledge, a rare comparative awareness of adjacent disciplines, and of course, a substantial, synthetic knowledge of modern artistic developments in Western Europe and the U.S. Out Looking In will be relevant to a large and varied public."--John E. Bowlt, author of Forbidden Art: Soviet Nonconformist Art, 1956-1988 "This is an essential book for scholars of modernism who are eager, in the wake of post-structuralist and post-modernist reevaluations of the construction of modernism's history, to broaden discussions beyond a narrow French orientation. It will serve as an important stimulus for rethinking European art in g...
Nikolay Myaskovsky
Drawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of Nikolay Myaskovsky. Zuk's account is far removed from Cold War clichés of the regimented Soviet artist or sentimental stereotypes of persecuted genius.
Krótki kurs PRL według Barei
Tytuł książki w ironiczny sposób nawiązuje do komunistycznej biblii, jaką była Historia Wszechzwiązkowej Komunistycznej Partii (bolszewików). Krótki kurs. Książka ta opowiadała historię partii bolszewickiej oraz prezentowała masom – w sposób propagandowy i bardzo uproszczony – wykład o korzeniach komunizmu. We wstępie zawarto passus zachęcający do pilnej lektury dzieła: „Studiowanie bohaterskiej historii partii bolszewickiej uzbraja w znajomość praw rozwoju społecznego i walki politycznej, w znajomości napędowych sił rewolucji”. To patetyczne stwierdzenie można sparafrazować, odnosząc je do komedii reżysera Misia. Studiowanie filmów Stanisława Barei uzbraja nas w znajomość praw rozwoju społecznego i walki politycznej, w znajomość napędowych sił rewolucji. Filmy te, obok warstwy satyrycznej i obyczajowej, stanowią kompendium wiedzy o PRL. Dotyczy to świetnie przedstawionych realiów tamtego czasu , ale także wielu czytelnych aluzji oraz odniesień do prawdziwych wydarzeń, instytucji oraz postaci historycznych.
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides electronic resources.
Najlepsze miasto świata
Po klęsce powstania warszawskiego nazywana niegdyś Paryżem Północy Warszawa zamieniła się w ocean gruzów. Trzeba było mieć wiele wyobraźni, żeby patrząc na sterczące kikuty dawnych kamienic, planować szybkie odrodzenie miasta. A jednak decyzję o jego odbudowie podjęto niemal niezwłocznie. Przed architektami i budowniczymi stanęło trudne zadanie... Choć wizytówką powojennej odbudowy Warszawy stała się zrekonstruowana starówka, to reszta miasta nie miała wrócić do dawnej formy, tylko zamienić się w idealną nowoczesną metropolię. To książka o entuzjazmie i optymizmie, o wyobrażaniu sobie „najlepszego miasta świata” na gruzach starego porządku, o architektach z Biura Odbudowy Stolicy, którzy tworząc miasto swoich marzeń, przykładali rękę do budowy totalitarnego państwa.
Polish Perspectives
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Fredric Chopin
Important books, articles, reviews, and theses on Fr d ric Chopin (1810-1849) in Western European languages and in Polish are cited; selected references in languages such as Russian, Czech, and Japanese are included as well. The Chopin legend is considered through studies of the performance tradition and a discography of recent and reissued recordings. Short essays outline the historiography of Chopin research and the current direction of scholarship. Index.
Figuration/Abstraction
The notion that the practice of abstraction was confined to Western Europe while a stereotyped form of figuration defined the art of the Eastern bloc continues to dominate art historical accounts of public sculpture of the post-war period. This book offers a number of alternative readings, and demonstrates strategic uses of figuration and abstraction across East and West. Encompassing sites of memory (including war memorials and Holocaust memorials), state, civic and corporate sculpture, as well as temporary and unexecuted projects, the book shows that persuasive advocates of figuration were to be found in the West, while in the East imaginative experiments in abstraction were proposed in the name of Social Realism. Presenting fresh insights into sculptural practice in the period between 1945 and 1968, this book brings together a wide range of authors, some of whom have never before been published in English. Their essays are complemented by extracts from documentary texts, which give a flavour of contemporary debates, and a biographical section includes entries on many sculptors who will be unfamiliar to an English-speaking audience.
