This essay on Teresa Tyszkiewicz’s extraordinary films is due for publication in a book edited by Zofia Machnicka in 2023. … More
Tag: consumerism
Super America: Polish Artists and Consumer Lifestyle
This is a link to a video of a lecture given in Poznan in spring 2023 at a excellent symposium … More
‘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
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
Personal Search
Here is a discussion of an undeservedly obscure Polish film, Rewizja Osobista / Personal Search, 1972. It was commissioned by the … More
