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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Die Spuren

Balka Miroslaw

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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Military

Polonica

Divided Loyalty Britain's Polish Ally During World War II

Rogalski Wieslaw

ISBN: PB: 9781911096641, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus., 3 maps

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland was a quasi-military State undergoing rapid political and social change. Nevertheless, Britain signed an agreement with the country as part of its decision to adopt a policy of encircling Germany: a res...

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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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Architecture

Design

Don't Brand My Public Space!

Baur Ruedi, Thiery Sebastien

ISBN: PB: 9783037783481, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1669 illus.

"Don't Brand My Public Space!" is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces. Isn't it about time to look at their often banal images as part of a crisis of political representation? In the conte...

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History of Art

Polonica

Drama and Devotion Heemskerck's Ecce Homo Altarpiece from Warsaw

Woollett Anne T.

ISBN: PB: 9781606061121, Getty Publications, July 2012
112 pp., 25.3x22.8 cm, 58 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.

This title offers a fascinating look at the efforts of the J. Paul Getty Museum to preserve and expose a stunning 16th century triptych. Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) was one of the most active and inventive Dutch painters of the 16th century. O...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Diary

Gombrowicz Witold, translated by Lillian Vallee, new preface by Rita Gombrowicz

ISBN: PB: 9780300118063, Yale University Press, June 2012
800 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his "Diary" with one of literature's most memorable openings: Mond...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Death of the Shtetl

Bauer Yehuda

ISBN: PB: 9780300167931, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm

In this book Yehuda Bauer, an internationally-acclaimed Holocaust historian, recounts the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, test...

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