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Category: Eastern Europe

Dan Perjovschi: The Power of the Margins

The international art world ‘discovered’ Dan Perjovschi in 1999 when his drawings were displayed in the Romanian Pavilion at the … More

drawing, humour, marginalia, Perjovschi, Romania, stegazeta

Sounding the Body Electric, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź – June to August 2012

Agata Pyzik’s review of the show from the August edition of The Wire is here. Polish readers might find these … More

Chance Operations – an extract from Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała

This is an extract from Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała, an exhibition catalogue accompanying this show at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, … More

Experimental Music, Foksal Gallery, John Cage, Komar and Melamid, Milan Grygar

‘Laughing at My Head’ – The ‘Immature’ Art of Neue Bieremiennost

I was commissioned to write a piece about the early years of artist Mirosław Bałka and his colleagues when they … More

Two books on Polish graphic design …

Against All Odds. Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949 (also published in Polish as Nie gęsi. Polskie projektowanie graficzne 1919–1949) by Piotr … More

Architecture and the Image of the Future in the People’s Republic of Poland

The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases … Karl … More

leisure, socmodernism

Paradise Lost?

This piece was published in Piktogram in 2005. ♦ The Art of Home In 1956 a member of the British … More

Andrea Zittel, Marjetica Potrč, socmodernism

Roman Cieślewicz, Changement de Climat, 1976-77

In the 1970s Cieślewicz turned his scalpel on the magazines which had given him employment in Paris in the 1960s. … More

Sacrifice, Madness, Ruins and Other Polish Dreams

This essay was written for the catalogue accompanying The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland at BOZAR … More

Akademia Ruchu, Brzeski, death, Grotowski, Kaczyński, Kordian, Kozyra, Krytyka Polityczna, Kusmirowski, Lenica, LIbera, Linke, madness, Mickiewicz, Polish art, Różewicz, revolution, Witkiewicz, Ziolkowski

Dlouhý’s ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’ (occasional notes on posters)

Bedřich Dlouhý was an occasional poster artist and book designer. Better known as a surrealist painter and a member of … More

Dlouhý, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Resnais, surrealism

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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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