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Category: Eastern Europe

To Rend and To Sew

This essay was published in a catalogue accompanying Beata Ewa Białecka’s 2018 Ave Kobieta exhibition at the National Gallery in Gdansk. … More

Białecka, embroidery, portraits

On Andrzej Klimowski

This essay was commissioned for a new book on the posters of Andrzej Klimowski published by Self-Made Hero in 2018. … More

Derrida, Klimowski, posters

Dan Perjovschi: The Power of the Margins

A piece written in 2010 ….   The international art world ‘discovered’ Dan Perjovschi in 1999 when his drawings were … More

Études with a camera – Dóra Maurer’s films and photoworks

  What can one do with a cobblestone? This was a question asked and answered by Dóra Maurer in 1971. … More

Maurer, Reich

‘Consumer Art’ and Other Commodity Aesthetics in Eastern Europe under Communist Rule

  This essay was written for a book which was published by Centrum Sztuki Nowoczesnej in Warsaw in January 2017. … More

Chytilova, consumerism, Daisies, Germaine Greer, Kostenko, Natalia LL, Pop Art

Király’s Immoderate Fashion

In 1986 Tamás Király arranged for his latest collection to be photographed on the steps of the Műcsarnok, the kunsthalle … More

The Peasant in the City

This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More

folklore, peasant culture, Stalinism

Notes from the Underground

In September, Daniel Muzyczuk and I curated a show entitled ‘Notes from the Underground’ for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz … More

Eastern Bloc, new wave, punk, video

Modernism Redux

In October 1993, Charles Jencks, the leading advocate of architectural postmodernism, was guest of honour at an international conference and … More

Czech modernism, Olgoj Chorchoj, postmodernism

The Future is Between Your Legs: Sex, Art and Censorship in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

This is a draft version of a text which will be published by Nottingham Contemporary in 2016.     In … More

FV 112/15, Ladik, OHO, pornography, Sexuality, Yugoslavia

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This is a notebook and an archive. I use this blog to sketch thoughts into words and to post articles and reviews already in print which are difficult to source or in translation. If you are interested to look further, you'll mostly find writing on graphic design and/or Eastern Europe here. You'll need to scroll down the page. There are some downloads and links in the menu above.

- David

You can email me at crowleyd[at]staff.ncad.ie

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