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Category: Modernism

Jurkiewicz – Astronomer/architect

This essay was published in the 2021 book accompanying the ZDZISŁAW JURKIEWICZ. OCCURRENCES exhibition at the Muzeum Narodowe in Wrocław … More

Facing Space – Jarek Kozakiewicz

This is an extract from a much longer essay which I wrote about the work of artist Jarek Kozakiewicz who … More

Faces

Guernica: Warsaw, London, Munich, New York

This essay on the afterlives of Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica’ appeared in Polish in Nigdy więcej. Sztuka przeciw wojnie i faszyzmowi … More

Modernism and the Spectres of the Past in Piłsudski’s Poland

I gave this lecture in New York at the Bard Graduate Centre in 2018 at a symposium on Revivalism in … More

Art, Emotion and Activism in the Post-Socialist Cityscape in Eastern Europe

In 2014 developers in Kraków in southern Poland proposed the construction of ‘Nowa Cracovia’, an office and retail development on … More

Arch Wars, Cracovia, socmodernism

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

Hasior’s Dreck

  This essay is a transcript of a talk given in Zakopane in late 2014. It will appear in a … More

Białoszewski, dreck, Hasior, Polański, Schulz, starocie

The Choreography of the Console: The Design of Electronic Environments and their Operators in the Cold War

This talk was given in Zurich at ETH in autumn 2014. In the late 1950 and 1960s a new kind … More

ballet, Cold War, computer art, cybernetics

Staging for the End of History: Avant-garde Visions at the Beginning and the End of Communism in Eastern Europe

In 1967 Stanislav Kolibal, the Czech artist, was commissioned to design the August-September cover of Výtvarné Uměni (Fine Arts) (fig … More

Avant-garde, Communism, Constructivism, Dvizhenie

Pop Effects in Eastern Europe under Communist Rule

In September 1974 Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid exhibited four works at an exhibition of nonconformist art in Moscow, which … More

consumerism, eastern europe, Pop Art

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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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