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Trans-Atlantyk
ISBN: PB: 9780300175301, Yale University Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's...
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£12,99
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Alicja Kwade Grad der Gewissheit
ISBN: HB: 9783954760510, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, February 2014
160 pp., 28x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German
The sculptures, video works, and installations of Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, Poland, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) explore economic, scientific, and socio-cultural systems and their inherent uncertainties. For example, the artist traces the flows...
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£32,50
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(A)pollonia Twenty-First Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage
ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857421784, Seagull Books, February 2014
416 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Questioning the ethics of historical narratives and the construction of national identities, this anthology of Polish plays explores the trauma of war, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, and reappraisals of the post-communist reality in Poland. The ele...
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£34,00
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Liminal Spaces Jurek Wajdowicz. Fotografie_75
ISBN: PB: 9783037784105, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2014
112 pp., 38.1x29.5 cm, 75 illus.
Polish-born photographer Jurek Wajdowicz's new art book luxuriates the viewer with both saturated and minimalist images that float between abstraction and reality of both the perceived and the imagined. The largeness of this limited-edition publicati...
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£50,00
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