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Die Spuren
ISBN: HB: 9783954762330, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2018
132 pp., 26.1x19.7 cm, black&white illus., language: English / German
Miroslaw Balka (born 1958 in Warsaw, lives and works in Otwock, Poland) doesn't shy away from emptiness, nothingness, and death. With his existential questions, Balka counts among the internationally bestknown Polish artists of his generation. Along...
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£34,90
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Landscapes between Eternities
ISBN: PB: 9783954762279, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2018
112 pp., 32x22.5 cm, 96 colour illus., language: English
The artists Sylwana Zybura and Tomas C. Toth have teamed up under the moniker crosslucid. Their shared undertaking is to develop "a prototype of the new world they long for". Yet this objective requires a variety of tests and experiments. What they e...
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£45,00
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Jewish Materialism The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s
ISBN: HB: 9780300221800, Yale University Press, March 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
To understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the influence and affluence of American Jewry. Against the revol...
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£41,00
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Catholics on the Barricades Poland, France, and "Revolution", 1939-1956
ISBN: HB: 9780300225518, Yale University Press, February 2018
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojty³a, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle...
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£37,00
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Frantic 7 The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781612005607, Casemate, February 2018
224 pp., 21x15 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus.
The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 as Soviet advances made Soviet airfields accessible to Allied long-range aircraft. American aircraft could hit targets in central Europe, refuel and rearm at Soviet bases, then fly back to bomb addit...
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£22,00
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Start-Up Poland The People Who Transformed an Economy
ISBN: HB: 9780226306810, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Poland in the 1980s was filled with shuttered restaurants and shops that bore such imaginative names as "bread", "shoes", and "milk products", from which lines could stretch for days on the mere rumor there was something worth buying. But you'd be ha...
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£20,50
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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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First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys
ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated
Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...
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£25,00
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Alicja Kwade
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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£27,50
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Watercolours A Story from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9789385932038, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
A Czechoslovakian Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009) was saved by her artistic abilities. Gottliebova painted the walls of the children's barracks with images of the Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...
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£14,50
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