Poland from Michael Fagan Fine Art & Rare Books

Quarto 28x23 cm., decorated cloth, 192 pp., errata sheet, in original dust wrapper; copiously illustrated throughout. Polish language text. The first full monograph and memoir on Mieczyslaw Szczuka, (1890-1927), visual genius and lodestar of the avant-garde in Poland, edited by two of his closest friends who worked with Szczuka and were leaders of the avant-garde in Warsaw. Stern was a author… Read more about this item

(Tytus Czyzewski & the Crisis of Formism) Octavo 21.8x17.3 cm., original wrappers, 4pp, 13 plates. Tytus Czyzewski (1880-1945) was a painter and art theorist who was greatly influenced by Cezanne. Together with the Pronaszko brothers he put together a group of expressionist and cubist artists based in Krakow. The Formisci expanded their dimensions to include members with widely… Read more about this item

Small octavo 17x11.5 cm., wrappers, 166pp. In the original dust wrapper from F. Hoesick, Warsaw. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz aka Witkacy (1885-1939) was an extraordinary gifted artist, photographer, dramatist, novelist and philosopher. He developed a fantastic expressionism and participated in the Formist group in Kraków from 1917 to 1919. Here he outlines his differences with all of the art theories and… Read more about this item