Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński: une avant-garde polonaise = a Polish avant-garde

Abstract

"Katarzyna Kobro et Władysław Strzemiński were leading figures of the Constructivist avant-garde in Poland. From their radical artistic stance, they worked together to reinvigorate art. While Kobro reformulated the modernist vocabulary of sculpture, promoting it as a form of architecture, Strzemiński developed a new painterly language through his theory of Unism, taking the idea of the organic autonomy of painting to its limits. The pair were close to the reformist movements of Cubist, Suprematist, and Constructivist art, and became members of several avant-garde groups before finally founding their own group, a.r. The work left by Kobro and Strzemiński, two committed artists during a period of great ferment, offers a glimpse of the ideal to which they aspired"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents

À la recherche de l'utopie réelle : Katarzyna Kobro et Władysław Strzemiński = Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński : in search of real utopia / Jarosław Suchan, Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska -- Les débuts en Russie = The beginnings in Russia / Masha Chlenova -- Les compositions architectoniques de Strzemiński = Strzemiński's Architectural compositions / Steven Mansbach -- La composition de l'espace = composing space / Marek Wieczorek -- Unisme & anti-unisme = Unism and anti-unism / Jean-François Chevrier -- Une logique de la forme, approche moderne du projet utilitaire = The logic of form : modern utilitarian design / Paulina Kurc-Maj -- Les marines de Strzemiński, des constructions biomorphiques = Biomorphic constructions: Strzemiński's seascapes / Andrzej Turowski -- Les nus de Kobro = Kobro's nudes / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Juste après = Afterwards / Paweł Mościcki -- A mes amis les juifs : histoire et photographie = To my friends, the Jews : photography and history / Esther Levinger -- Images rémanentes : la présence de l'oeil dans le champ visuel = Afterimages: the eye presence in the field of vision / Leszek Brogowski -- Władysław Strzemiński et la théorie de la vision = Władysław Strzemiński and Theory of vision / Meghan Forbes.