Paris Exhibition 1925 [Szczuka , Szukalski, Syrkus, Stryjeńska].

Warsaw 2007 Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 20x27 cm, pp. 237, 72 (album part), black and white and color illustrations and photographs, soft cover. Very good condition.

Scientific editor: Joanna M. Sosnowska.

Contents include: Parisian general and international exhibitions as a reflection of the world status of the French capital from the mid-19th to the first decades of the 20th century (Peter Martyn). The International Exhibition of 1925 in the light of the French press (Anna Wierzbicka). New Europe - New States at the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry in Paris (Andrzej Szczerski). Exhibition in the Baryczków tenement - preparations for the Paris exhibition (Anna Kostrzyńska-Miłosz). Crystalline forms - idea or detail of architecture? (Hanna Faryna-Paszkiewicz). Why was there no avant-garde in Paris? (Joanna M. Sosnowska). Exhibition as an image of the state. The Soviet pavilion at the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris - from a Polish perspective (Iwona Luba). Jan Szczepkowski's Parisian victory? (Katarzyna Uhera). Architecture of the Polish pavilion in the eyes of critics and art historians (Małgorzata Omilanowska). Batiks in the Javanese-Cracowian style (Irena Huml). The Paris exhibition of 1925 and some aspects of American art deco (Andrzej K. Olszewski).

Text features Mieczysław Szczuka, Stanisław Szukalski, Szymon Syrkus, Jan Szczepkowski, Karol Frycz, Zofia Stryjeńska, Tadeusz Gronowski, August Zamoyski, among others.