World Art Studies, vol. 24 (2024)

In keeping with its title, the volume consisted of two sections, integrated with one another: The first section is devoted to Polish research into American art of the 20th and the early 21st centuries, and is divided into two periods. The first of these covers the years from 1913 to the Second World War, and extends from the Armory Show, associated with the reception in America of the European avant-garde, through the era of New York Dadaism and Surrealism and of the work of American artists active within the milieux of the European avant-garde, to the emigration to America of European artists in the 1930s The second period dates from 1945 to the present day, and covers Abstract Expressionism and the Neo-expressionism of the 1970s and 1980s, Modernism and Postmodernism, Conceptualism and Post-conceptualism, and art making use of new media, together with the influence of these currents upon European art. Questions regarding art theory, art criticism and the lives of artists became fundamental – a re-evaluation of exhibitions, art education, art museums, art institutions and the art press.
The second section comprises the work of Polish artists, and artists with Polish origins, the activities of Polish institutions in the USA, the exchange of artists and exhibitions, and the relationship between American and Polish art, including their mutual influences.
The present publication serves as an outline of the history of the Polish artistic milieu (updated to cover the last few years) and of the work of Polish artists, including those now belonging to the older and the middle generations The conference and the publication of its materials in English facilitates Polish participation in research undertaken in the context of international pan-Atlantic cooperation regarding the development and individuality of new groupings created by émigrés from Europe, expressed by means of their artistic creativity, which in turn can influence the art of their own countries of origin. The volume enriches the documentation of Polish art and artistic life abroad, including that of émigrés, which for many years have been the subject of research by the Polish Institute of World Art Studies and other Polish institutions.

Spis treści

Jerzy Malinowski

The 9th Conference on Modern Art

Krzysztof Z. Cieszkowski

“Oh my America, my new found lande”: heroic materialism and the cargo cult

Mirosława Buchholtz

Sargent and Sargent, John and Johnson: American Portraits in White and Black

Magdalena Modrzejewska

“It Will Throw a Bomb into our Art World” – The 1913 Armory Show and Its Disruptive Effect

Dominika Buchowska-Greaves

Max Weber: an American Cubist

Małgorzata Geron

A few notes about Rita Sacchetto’s performances in the United States

Monika Nowak
“New Understanding”: The International School of Art (ISA) and the Polish Art Service (PAS), Organisations Promoting Polish-American Art Relations in the 1930s

Irena Kossowska

Brooklyn celebrates Polish artistic idioms: The question of national art in the American critical discourse

Filip Pręgowski

Matt Mullican : Hypnosis, performance and truth

Anna Markowska

Spirituality in American women’s art: the Heresies collective, artistic re-enchantment practices, and new thealogical perspectives

Justyna Chojnacka

“Nouveau Frisco”, or some remarks on the sources of San Francisco psychedelic art

Magdalena Chomiak

Lenore Tawney’s Openwork fabrics, Totems and Postcard Collages as Inspiration for My Own Artistic Endeavours

Martyna Wenda

The Work of Sandro Miller as a Multifaceted Expression of Contemporary Art

Maria Hussakowska

Brygida Serafin and parallels with John Cage’s „liturgical contingency”

Bożena Pysiewicz

The Polish School of Posters versus the “photo-posters” of Hollywood distributors, or On Polish posters for American films

Kamila Dworniczak

Świat – Poland – Ameryka. The United States in the pages of illustrated magazines duringthe “Polish Thaw” in the context of Polish-American cultural relations

Irma Kozina

The American National Exhibition in Moscow and its impact on the development of institutions that educate industrial design students in Poland

Filip Lipiński

Ten Thousand Lines: Sol LeWitt in Poland

Paweł Polit

Échange Values, Potential Encounters: Correspondences Between Works by American and Polish Artists

Anna Dzierżyc-Horniak

“If you have a gallery, we will bring the works...”: Selected American artists at the Foksal Gallery in the 1970s.

Aleksandra Sumorok

Polish Architects on Ford Foundation Fellowships: The Case of Stanisław Juchnowicz

Piotr Marciniak

Charles Jencks and the Postmodern Paradigm: The Impact of Theoretical American Thinking on Contemporary Polish Architecture

Katarzyna Szrodt

The Penetration of art across borders – Polish visual artists between Canada and the United States

Katarzyna Szydłowska-Schiller

Stanisław Szukalski and the underground comix scene on the West Coast

Hanna Sawka

Raising the Flag: The Motif of the Banner in Jan Sawka’s Artworks Across Continents

Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz

California’s KrakArt Group

Anna Rudek-Śmiechowska
Illustrators working with “The New York Times” against the background of the Polish-American art community of New York City in the 1980s.

Piotr Bolesław Majewski
Janusz Skowron − Artist and Animateur within the Circle of “Polish New Yorkers” at the Turnof the 20th and 21st Centuries

Eleonora Jedlińska
On American criticism of the art work LEGO: Zbigniew Libera’s Concentration Campand Exhibitions in New York in 2002

Jerzy Uścinowicz

Form and void: the new “Ground Zero” in New York City