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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Alicja Kwade

Lorenz Ulrike

ISBN: HB: 9783954761234, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, August 2017
128 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 65 colour illus., language: English / German

Creation Dialectical acuity and lucid absurdity are the defining characteristics of the sculptures and object constellations created by Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). The artist deftly combines elementary materials and o...

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Performing Arts

Polonica

Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work

Laster Dominika

ISBN: PB: 9780857423177, Seagull Books, November 2015
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition pro...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

De.Fi.Cien.Cy Andrzej Wroblewski, Rene Daniels, Luc Tuymans

Loock Ulrich

ISBN: HB: 9783954761210, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, September 2015
216 pp., 26x19.5 cm, 135 colour illus., 3 black&white illus., language: English / Polish

United in DE.FI.CIEN.CY are three artists from different generations and national backgrounds. Andrzej Wroblewski, perhaps Poland's preeminent postwar painter, died in 1957 at the age of thirty, and ill health forced Rene Daniels (b. Eindhoven, 1950)...

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Performing Arts

Polonica

"Loose Screws" and Other Polish Plays

Laster Dominika

ISBN: PB: 9780857421777, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 19x15.2 cm

An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama, "Loose Screws" brings together nine previously un-translated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individ...

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Aviation

Polonica

Out in Front A Polish Fighter Pilot's Dramatic Air War

Lanowski Witold

ISBN: HB: 9780992620745, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, September 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, black&white illus.

Decorated Polish fighter pilot Witold "Lanny" Lanowski tells his remarkable Second World War story beginning with his dramatic escape from Nazi aggression in Poland, fighting with the reformed Polish Air Force in France, and eventually arriving in En...

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Biography & Memoires

Travel

London Observed A Polish Philosopher at Large, 1822-24

Lach-Szyrma Krystin

ISBN: PB: 9781904955641, Signal Books, September 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The philosopher and writer Krystin Lach-Szyrma came to Britain in 1820 as tutor to two Polish princes, as their Grand Tour took them to Enlightenment Scotland, where they spent two years studying at Edinburgh University. After...

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