Warsaw 2009; Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 20x27 cm, pp. 322, black and white and color illustrations and photographs, soft cover. Very good condition.
Academic editor: Joanna M. Sosnowska.
Contents include: Between Two Exposures. The years 1925-1937 (Anna Wierzbicka). The last Paris exhibition with worldwide publicity. Political background, organization, main intentions (Peter Martyn). Aestheticization of the nation, nationalism of aesthetics. Film at the 1937 Paris exhibition (Teresa Rutkowska). Art as representation. The pavilion as an image of the state. Poland and neighboring countries in Paris in 1937 (Iwona Luba). Lech Niemojewski and his role at the 1937 Paris exhibition (Piotr Korduba). Idyll and politics. The "Jan III Sobieski" macata at the 1937 Paris exhibition (Hubert Bilewicz). "Great Glass" by Brukalska (Marta Lesniakowska). "A Great Hunger for Beauty. Painting by Jeremy Kubicki (Irena Dzhurkova-Kossowska). "Order. Between Paris 1925 and Paris 1937 (Irena Huml). Train to Modernity. Exposition of the Ministry of Communications (Krystyna Łuczak-Surówka). Polish music at the world exhibition in Paris (Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak). The Palace of Advertising at the exhibition "Art and Technology in Modern Life" (Anna Agnieszka Szablowska). The Pavilion of the "Land of Israel" in Palestine and the Pavilion of Jewish Culture (Renata Piątkowska). Le Corbusier and Polish Women. Helena Syrkus at the Paris exhibition in 1937 (Marta Lesniakowska).
The text features August Zamoyski, Boleslaw Cybis, Józef Szanajca, Lech Niemojewski, Bohdan Lachert, Mieczyslaw Szymanski, Maria Łomnicka-Bujakowa, Barbara Brukalska, Jeremi Kubicki, Tadeusz Gronowski, Mieczyslaw Berman, Antoni Wajwód.
