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A Burglar of the Better Sort
The history of Poland, since the eighteenth century, has been marked by an almost unending struggle for survival. From 1795 through 1945, she was partitioned four times by her stronger neighbours, most of whom were intent on suppressing if not eradicating Polish culture. It is not surprising, then, that much of the great literature written in modern Poland has been politically and patriotically engaged. Yet there is a second current as well, that of authors devoted above all to the craft of literary expression, creating ‘art for art’s sake,’ and not as a didactic national service. Such a poet is Tytus Czyżewski, one of the chief, and most interesting, literary figures of the twentieth...
2021
This volume explores the fraught relationship between Futurism and the Sacred. Like many fin-de-siècle intellectuals, the Futurists were fascinated by various forms of esotericism such as theosophy and spiritualism and saw art as a privileged means to access states of being beyond the surface of the mundane world. At the same time, they viewed with suspicion organized religions as social institutions hindering modernization and ironically used their symbols. In Italy, the theorization of "Futurist Sacred Art" in the 1930s began a new period of dialogue between Futurism and the Catholic Church. The essays in the volume span the history of Futurism from 1909 to 1944 and consider its different configurations across different disciplines and geographical locations, from Polish and Spanish literature to Italian art and American music.
Visions of Avant-Garde Film
Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant-garde. In this comprehensive and accessible study, Kamila Kuc draws on myriad undiscovered archival sources to tell the history of early Polish avant-garde movements—Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, and Constructivism—and to reveal their impact on later practices in art cinema.
Theories of the Avant-garde Theatre
In this collection of essays by avant-garde theatre's most creative practitioners--directors, playwrights, performers, and designers--these writings provide direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating playwriting and performance of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Kolejny tom cyklu głośnych powieści Izabeli Czajki-Stachowicz. Dalsze losy bohaterki Małżeństwa po raz pierwszy i Nigdy nie wyjdę za mąż. Czy kapelusik schowany ukradkiem do sarkofagu w Luwrze nasiąknie mądrością dziejów? Co czytali polscy robotnicy we Francji? Jak można zarobić na ciepły posiłek w wielkim mieście? Kogo kochała Kiki - legenda Montparnasse'u? I dlaczego nawet w najdroższym pokoju we francuskim hotelu nie ma pościeli? Przedwojenny Paryż, młodzi artyści z różnych stron świata, ale przede wszystkim ona - słynna już wtedy Bella, modelka Kislinga, przyjaciółka Czyżewskiego, muza Gombrowicza i Witkacego, której Chaim Soutine nosił walizki. Bella d...
Being Poland
Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland's cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland's modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.
The Eastern Dada Orbit
Launches an eight-volume series on the rebellious art form created during World War I by artists and writers in Zurich reacting to the horror of war, the onslaught of new technology, and the stifling aesthetics of futurism and cubism. In 11 essays, provides parameters for the historical and sociological context of the movement; its manifestation in visual arts, theater, the media, and literature; the correspondence between the actual works and the various manifestos; and the relevance of studying the phenomenon to present concerns. Illustrated in black and white. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Formiści. Twórczość i programy artystyczne
W książce została przedstawiona historia i twórczość formistów, ugrupowania działającego w latach 1917–1922. Powstanie grupy, stanowiło kulminację procesu zapoczątkowanego jeszcze przed I wojną światową, związanego z wpływem sztuki awangardowej, kontaktami z Berlinem i Monachium, a szczególnie z Paryżem. Przyjęte nazwy „Ekspresjoniści Polscy”, a następnie „Formiści Polscy” i „formiści” odwoływały się do nurtów sztuki rozwijającej się od początku XX wieku, wskazując przy tym na narodowy aspekt grupy. Organizowane przez formistów wystawy objęły swym zasięgiem Kraków, Warszawę, Lwów i Poznań, co doprowadziło do powstania szerokiego ruchu ar...
The History of Polish Literature, Updated Edition
This book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date.
Early Polish Modern Art
This groundbreaking work examines four avant-garde groups that emerged in Poland towards the end of World War I; the Poznan Expressionists, the Young Yiddish, the Formists, and the Futurists. It is the first extensive study to bring the four groups together, and in doing so it establishes interconnections between them, and discusses their work in light of socio-political and cultural currents in Poland and wider Europe in the interwar period.
