In the first monograph on modernist trends in Polish art, the author presents the historical and political interconnections of the avant-garde...
This book touches on the main problems of the Polish twentieth century avant-garde. In the first monograph on modernist trends in Polish art, the author presents the historical and political interconnections of the avant-garde. Turowski places the history of avant-garde in the context of artistic discussions on abstract art and social engagement, on new technologies of presentation and the mass consumption of culture, on the conception of realism and the ideological choices of radical artists. The wide perspective that this book creates applies to the birth of the avant-garde in the circle of anarchistic Expressionism and Futuro-dadaism as well as the defeat of its humanistic vision in light of World War II and the Holocaust.
Andrzej Turowski, contemporary art historian, professor at the University of Bourgond in Dijon. His areas of research are twentieth century artistic geography, modern architecture and modern European art.
Source: Wydawnictwo Universitas
- Andrzej Turowski
The Architects of the World. From the History of Radical Modernism in Polish Art / Budowniczowie świata. Z dziejów radykalnego modernizmu w sztuce polskiej
Universitas, Kraków 2000
A4, 416 pages, hardcover
ISBN 83-7052-673-X