This is an extract from a much longer essay which I wrote about the work of artist Jarek Kozakiewicz who … More
Category: Modernism
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
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
Hasior’s Dreck
This essay is a transcript of a talk given in Zakopane in late 2014. It will appear in a … More
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
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
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
Piłsudski’s Architect
This article appears in the catalogue on the life and work of the Polish architect Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz in Kraków in … More
