Game of All by Jerzy Krawczyk [Collective work].

Warsaw-Łódź 2022/Zachęta-National Gallery of Art/23x27cm/s.220/ original publisher's softcover/color reproductions/new condition

Collective work. Bilingual album Polish/English

The monograph of Jerzy Krawczyk (1921-1969) takes a closer look at his multifaceted oeuvre based on the painter's experiences and personal convictions and his references to the canon of ancient art and that of the early 20th century, showing it in a new light. Accompanies two installments The monograph of Jerzy Krawczyk (1921-1969) takes a closer look at the multithreaded work based on the experiences and personal beliefs of the painter and his references to the canon of ancient art and that of the early 20th century, showing it in a new light. It accompanies two exhibition installments, Jerzy Krawczyk. Game for Everything at Zachęta and Jerzy Krawczyk. Mice and People at the Museum of Art in Lodz. The layout of the richly illustrated book is adapted to the problems and themes present in the artist's work. The authors of the texts are excellent writers and writers on art: Anna Baranova, Jaroslaw Lubiak, Karolina Zychowicz and Marcin Lachowski. Baranova puts forward the thesis that Krawczyk is a precursor of postmodernism long before the concept was constituted in Polish culture, and considers the painter's work in intertextual terms. Lachowski takes a closer look at the themes of the Holocaust and the experience of war, consistently undertaken by the artist since 1950. Lubiak looks at the artist's art through the prism of Catherine Malabou's theories and psychoanalysis, primarily in relation to the artist's self-portraits, while Karolina Zychowicz examines Krawczyk's art in terms of its ideological orientation and affiliation with the Realist Painters Group, calling it committed surrealism. The publication also includes a calendar of the painter's life and work, as well as a text by Michał Jachuła on Krawczyk's work at the Department of Correct Anatomy at the Medical Academy in Lodz [description from the publisher].