Zin Wiktor - Opowieśći o polskich kapliczkach - autograf - Wroclaw 1995

Victor Zin

Tales of Polish shrines

Ossolineum

Wroclaw - Warsaw - Krakow 1995

Nice dedication by the author on the pre-title page.

Hardcover. Perfect condition.

Number of pages: 76 + illustrations

Format : 235 x 280 [mm].

The author writes about his book as follows: "For half a century I have recorded in drawings and paintings shrines and rural cemeteries. From these illustrations formed a collection of often no longer existing objects that needed to be immortalized. It is surprising that even now, when there has been full freedom for believers, shrines are disappearing almost before our eyes, there are fewer of them every month. Why? Here we live in a time of unprecedented change, both in the world around us and in the criteria that define moral values. Marxism preached that quantitative changes consequently lead to qualitative changes. In fact, the opposite is happening. Behold, changes in the quality of life have led to the fact that the historian, who will have the task of describing our era of the borderland of centuries, will have to use the adjective >>mass<< time and again."