This dissertation traces art’s changing relation to labor in the creative conditions of late-socialist Poland. A starting premise of my argument is that despite its putative leveling of class difference, state socialism did not fully and instantly intermix mass society and the cultural elite into one undifferentiated class. I consider artists’ reflexivity about their status as workers alongside state-sponsored efforts to import art into the industrial workplace. I begin with an analysis of Józef Robakowski’s From My Window (1978-1999) – a film that visualizes the gap between the artistic elite and broader public as the physical distance between a ninth-floor window (where Robakowski shoots the film) and the ground below (the bustling...
This thesis concerns the Polish institution of the dom kultury (house of culture). A dom kultury is ...
The article interprets selected works of action art in Poland, but in the context of their relations...
This is a study of the relations between the state and the working class during the imposition of Co...
In Polish art history, there are two approaches to the “Arsenał” exhibition of August 1955. One, roo...
POWER VERSUS ART IN POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC AND TODAY The basis of this study is Mark Wlodarczyk’s ...
Art and cultural historians have long characterized the relationship between East Germany’s experime...
POWER VERSUS ART IN POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC AND TODAY The basis of this study is Mark...
Soviet-era Communism was a project of emergence that failed to realise its Utopian ambition. Neverth...
Postwar Cultures: Art and Communism in Krakow and Leipzig On the morning of January 19, 1945, Dr. B...
This thesis examines the use of design in the construction of Polandâs national identity at the inte...
This dissertation examines Ukrainian painting of the perestroika era produced by the last generation...
"In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art--as an activity done out of lo...
My thesis identifies and analyzes the effectiveness of a particular mode of politicized art praxis: ...
This thesis examines the use of design in the construction of Poland’s national identity at the inte...
This dissertation investigates how the question of national responsibility under Communism in Polish...
This thesis concerns the Polish institution of the dom kultury (house of culture). A dom kultury is ...
The article interprets selected works of action art in Poland, but in the context of their relations...
This is a study of the relations between the state and the working class during the imposition of Co...
In Polish art history, there are two approaches to the “Arsenał” exhibition of August 1955. One, roo...
POWER VERSUS ART IN POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC AND TODAY The basis of this study is Mark Wlodarczyk’s ...
Art and cultural historians have long characterized the relationship between East Germany’s experime...
POWER VERSUS ART IN POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC AND TODAY The basis of this study is Mark...
Soviet-era Communism was a project of emergence that failed to realise its Utopian ambition. Neverth...
Postwar Cultures: Art and Communism in Krakow and Leipzig On the morning of January 19, 1945, Dr. B...
This thesis examines the use of design in the construction of Polandâs national identity at the inte...
This dissertation examines Ukrainian painting of the perestroika era produced by the last generation...
"In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art--as an activity done out of lo...
My thesis identifies and analyzes the effectiveness of a particular mode of politicized art praxis: ...
This thesis examines the use of design in the construction of Poland’s national identity at the inte...
This dissertation investigates how the question of national responsibility under Communism in Polish...
This thesis concerns the Polish institution of the dom kultury (house of culture). A dom kultury is ...
The article interprets selected works of action art in Poland, but in the context of their relations...
This is a study of the relations between the state and the working class during the imposition of Co...