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Art in a Disrupted World Poland 1939–1949

Pietrasik Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788364177750, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! With Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish-born a...

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America

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American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226406619, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaho...

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Contemporary Art

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Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot The Roof Garden Commission

Baum Kelly, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588396679, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2019
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 58 colour illus.

Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...

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Contemporary Art

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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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Military

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Armoured Hussars Volume 2: Images of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, Normandy, August 1944

Jarzembowski Janusz, Bradley David

ISBN: PB: 9781910777237, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2015
184 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 250 photos, 8 colour profiles

"Armoured Hussars 2" provides a highly-illustrated account of the 1st Polish Armoured Division's baptism of fire in Normandy in August 1944, from Operations Totalise and Tractable to the victory at Falaise, culminating at the climactic battle on Mont...

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Military

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Armoured Hussars Volume 1: Images of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, 1939-47

Jarzembowski Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9781909384439, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2014
148 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 250 black&white illus.

This wonderful album is a brilliant pictorial history of the 1st Polish Armoured Division composed of about 250 photographs, documents and publications largely collected by WO1 Alexander Leon "Manka" Jarzembowski, a veteran of 2nd Armoured Regiment,...

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Alicja Kwade Grad der Gewissheit

Martin Sylvia

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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Military

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Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!

Peszke Michael Alfred

ISBN: PB: 9781908916549, ISBN: HB: 9781909982604, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2012
80 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 photos, 3 maps

This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March, 1939 and then throughout the Second World War. Recreated in France, the Polish Military concept...

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Alicja Kwade Materia Prima

ISBN: HB: 9783942405584, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour illus., language: English / German

Few positions in art currently attract more attention than the works of the young sculptor Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, 1979; lives and works in Berlin). They show how easy it would be to lift our construction of reality off its hinges. In her installa...

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