The power of fantasy - Crowley David; Machnicka Zofia; Szczerski Andrzej

modern and contemporary art from Poland

KORTE INHOUD

This generously illustrated book explores the best works of contemporary art from Poland by a generation of artists who have made their careers since the fall of communism in the country in 1989.

Exhibition Itinerary:
Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium, June 24-September 18, 2011

Published in association with BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, Poland.
Polish artists such as Monika Sosnowska, Wilhelm Sasnal, Piotr Uklanski, Katarzyna Kozyra, and Robert Kusmirowski, among many others, enjoy considerable international renown and their works feature in major galleries and collections of art around the world. This book demonstrates how the fantastic and the magical, the mad and the absurd have been powerful forces in contemporary Polish art. Often sharply critical of the changing world in which they live, these artists sustain a tradition of dissent and critical reflection which is deeply-rooted in Polish culture. For this generation of artists, like others before them, fa...
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2011Uitgever: Prestel Publishing177 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte:  280x220ISBN-10: 3791351451ISBN-13: 9783791351452

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