The book tells about scandals, both artistic and moral, which shocked the public to the core.
The period of Young Poland appears to us more colorful and frenetic than the previous period - Positivism. There was a lot going on in the field of art, both in Warsaw and Krakow, also in the provinces. Poland was not on the map, and yet the cultural life of Poles flourished: plays were written and staged, books were published, people painted and created despite censorship in all the partitions. The spirit of decadence and the charm of the end of the century was hovering over everything, scandals broke out every now and then, and love affairs were fierce. In the fumes of alcohol and drugs, without a penny to their souls, but art is not about money after all.
Podkowiński destroying his own work in Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery, the young poet Maria Komornicka, who had serious problems identifying with her own gender, the phenomenal Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska, who enamored almost all of artistic Kraków, and the arch-satan of modernism - Stanisław Przybyszewski, who broke up the marriage of his friend Jan Kasprowicz - these are some of the heroes of this publication, taking readers on a fascinating journey through time.
Published by Bellona, Warsaw 2017.
Format: 210 x 150, 384 pages.
Hardcover.
Piece in very nice condition. Title increasingly difficult to acquire.
