Young Poland - The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1918

Explores the decorative arts and architecture of Polish Modernism and its relationship to the Arts & Crafts movement in Britain.

About the author

Julia Griffin (née Dudkiewicz) is an art historian and curator specialising in the Arts & Crafts Movement and Victorian painting. Her PhD explores William Morris and D.G. Rossetti (Central Saint Martins, UAL). Julia has been responsible for a number of innovative exhibitions and permanent collection rehangs, notably the City's New Collection Displays (2015) at the Guildhall Art Gallery, for which she was awarded Freedom of the City of London. Recent publications include contributions to May Morris. Art and Life (William Morris Gallery, 2017) and Routledge Research Companion to William Morris (2020).

Andrzej Szczerski is Director of the National Museum in Kraków and Professor in the Art History Department at Jagiellonian University. He has published extensively on 20th-century art, design, and architecture, including a pioneering study on the reception of British art in Central Europe Views of Albion, The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe (1890-1918) (Peter Lang Oxford: 2015). He has curated exhibitions on 19th and 20th century art and architecture, and in 2009 he co-curated "Symbolism in Poland and Britain" at the Tate Britain in London.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Szczerski Griffin
• Assisted by: Julia Griffin (Editor), Andrzej Szczerski (Editor), Szczerski Andrzej (Editor)
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2020
• EAN: 9781848224537
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-453-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Poland, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Arts and Crafts, History of Art, Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Polish Arts & Crafts Movement;Młoda Polska;Decorative arts