Art in exile
Subtitle: Polish painters in post-war Britain
By: Douglas Hall
Publisher: Sansom & Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bristol [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781904537663
Subjects: Expatriate artists; Artists; World War, 1939-1945; Art and the war; Polish Art
Description: "This book is about a body of painters who have generally been marginalised by British art historians - the Polish exiles from war and persecution who made their homes and careers in Britain before or after 1939. It takes ten of them, explores their origins, their often hazardous escape from occupied Europe, their reception and the development of their work. Some who were personally known to the author, such as Herman and Ruszkowski, are, along with Gotlib and others, the subject of searching enquiry; a further group, perhaps better known, like Adler and Potworowski, are also covered. The book has chapters on the Polish context from which they came, on the problems East European art has encountered in the West, and on the Polish artistic community in Britain as a whole."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-386) and index.