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The Power of Fantasy - Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland - Catalogue of the Exhibition at Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, 2011

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Fantasie als Widerstand gegen die Realität
Zeitgenössische polnische Künstler, wie beispielsweise Monika Sosnowska, Wilhelm Sasnal und Katarzyna Kozyra, haben seit dem Ende des Kommunismus weltweit Anerkennung gefunden. Ihre Werke sind ein Spiel mit dem Fantastischen und Magischen, dem Verrückten und Absurden. In der Zusammenschau mit bedeutenden polnischen Kunstwerken aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert wird sichtbar, wie tief verwurzelt fantastische Kunst als subversives Ausdrucksmittel von Kritik in der polnischen Tradition ist. Das großzügig bebilderte Buch leistet einen grundlegenden Beitrag zum Verständnis einer wichtigen Facette europäischer Kunst.

About the author

DAVID CROWLEY is a lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London. ZOFIA MACHNICKA is Deputy Director of the Polish Cultural Institute in Brussels. ANDRZEJ SZCZERSKI is a lecturer at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Summary

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. 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, fantasy has not been a way of escaping reality but of challenging it. To trace these deep roots, the essays in this book examine contemporary Polish art in the context of masterpieces by figures like Tadeusz Kantor, Magdalena Abakanowicz, and Bruno Schulz.

Product details

Authors David Crowley, Zofia Machnicka, Adrezej Szcserski
Assisted by Crowle (Editor), Crowley (Editor), David Crowley (Editor), Machnick (Editor), Machnicka (Editor), Zofia Machnicka (Editor), Szczerski (Editor), Andrzej Szczerski (Editor)
Publisher Prestel
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.07.2011
 
EAN 9783791351452
ISBN 978-3-7913-5145-2
No. of pages 160
Dimensions 220 mm x 280 mm x 20 mm
Weight 1108 g
Illustrations w. 170 col. ill.
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts

Polen : Kunst

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