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Physical description:
240 pages illustrations (black and white, and colour), color maps 27 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition
Place:
Poland
Pologne
Date:
2020
19th century
20th century
19e siècle
20e siècle
Notes:
"Published ahead of a major exhibition on the subject at the William Morris Gallery in autumn 2021" -- Acknowledgements, page 6
Gift of Margery Masinter /
Contents:
Part 1: The making of the Polish arts and crafts movement: Key people, places and idea. 1. The reception of the pre-Raphaelite's and the arts and crafts movement in Poland / Andrzej Szczerski -- 2. Fellow arts and crafts reformers Stanisław Wyspiański and William Morris: parallel lives / Julia Griffin -- 3. "Let us surround ourselves with our own beauty": Stanisław Wyspiański's decorative scheme for the Franciscan Church in Kraków / Magdalena Laskowska -- 4. "Disappointed love": Stanisław Wyspiański and Wawel / Anna Rudzińska -- 5. Wyspiański's Chocholy: a meditation on the "Straw Man" generation / Anna Rudzińska -- 6. The Zakopane style of Stanisław Witkiewicz / Zbigniew Moździerz in collaboration with Anna Wende-Surmiak -- 7. Karol Kłosowski and the Silent Villa: living the arts and crafts life in the Tatras / Edyta Barucka -- 8. Karol Kłosowski (1882-1971): the last Young Poland artist and a genius for ornament / Julia Griffin -- 9. "Fine handwork of various professions": the Kraków workshops / Roisin Inglesby -- 10. Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (b.1891, Kraków, d. 1945, Manchester): the pictorial art of Young Poland's daughter / Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard -- Part 2: Objects and craft practices in focus. 11. Interiors and furniture / Alicja Kilijańska -- 12. Edward Bartłomiejczyk's design for a nursery / Zofia Weiss -- 13. Textiles / Joanna Regina Kowalska -- 14. Ceramics / Bożena Kostuch -- 15. Children's toys and Christmas-tree decorations from the Kraków workshops / Anna Myczkowska-Szczerska -- 16. The book beautiful / Monika Pás -- 17. Painting / Piotr Kopszak
Summary:
Showcasing the extraordinary achievements of the proponents of Polish modernism from the 1890s to 1918, this ground-breaking book brings together pioneering research with beautiful imagery. Mloda Polska, or Young Poland, embraced the integration of fine and applied arts, motivated by a desire to establish a distinctive national style at a time of political uncertainty. Patriotic values were expressed through a diverse visual language that was fueled by national identity, but also looked beyond Poland to Western Europe and the influences of Impressionism, Expressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, while also displaying parallels with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Young Poland's painting has been discussed within an international arena, but its decorative arts and architecture has yet to enjoy broad exposure. Here, for the first time, the considerable achievements of the movement's applied artists will be discussed, both from a national and international perspective. Highlighting Young Poland's integration of fine and decorative arts, the movement's ideological, stylistic and formal commonalities with British Arts and Crafts, and the vision of Ruskin and Morris, will be drawn out to provide fascinating insights for Western and Eastern audiences alike
