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Fear of Mirrors
ISBN: PB: 9780857426413, Seagull Books, March 2019
332 pp., 20.1x15.7 cm
In this novel from esteemed political writer Tariq Ali, a father, Vlady, loses his job when he refuses to renounce socialist beliefs in the newly unified Germany – and as a result wants to explain to his alienated son what their family's long and pas...
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£14,99
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Julian Stanczak Life of Surface
ISBN: PB: 9780998631202, DAP, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, January 2018
74 pp., 26.4x25.4 cm, 38 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The canvases of Polish-born American Op-art protagonist Julian Stanczak (1928-2017) range in their perceptual effects from a vibrant glow to an electric, rhythmic oscillation. This book gathers paintings made between 1970 a...
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£35,00
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Grotowski's Empty Room
ISBN: HB: 9781906497231, Seagull Books, November 2009
224 pp., 23.1x16.3 cm, 16 halftones
Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999) was a Polish stage director, theatrical theorist, and founder and director of the small but influential Polish Laboratory Theatre. Most of Grotowski's theater-making took place in this and similar small theaters and studio...
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£22,00
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When God Looked the Other Way An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption
ISBN: PB: 9780226004440, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 maps
Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. S...
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£13,00
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