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Edi Hila
ISBN: PB: 9788364177538, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2018
148 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 68 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! This catalog accompanies "Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation", the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Albanian painter Edi Hila, considered one of the last masters from Eastern Europe. Through Hila's eyes, the Ea...
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£22,00
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Street Art Anthology From Graffiti to Contextual Art
ISBN: PB: 9788416504459, Hoaki, October 2016
239 pp., 23.1x17 cm, richly illustrated
What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features? What are its codes and its language? How has its production, which was originally almost exclusively centered in the urban...
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£19,99
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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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Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9780226148175, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 30 halftones
Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clan...
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£19,50
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Two Underdogs and a Cat Three Reflections on Communism
ISBN: HB: 9781906497286, Seagull Books, November 2009
112 pp., 18.4x11.2 cm
Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic here presents an unorthodox, imaginative take on the transition from Communism to capitalism in the former Soviet Union. Three characters – a dog, an underdog, and a cat – offer the reader narratives that reflect on...
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£13,00
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