Description

Wieslaw Juszczak

Ossoliński National Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences Publishing House
23 cm, 478, [2] p., leather binding

A collection of the most important critical texts on Polish painting at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, compiled by Wieslaw Juszczak. The anthology collects reviews, essays and articles by prominent critics and publicists of the period, showing the evolution of views on art and the most important aesthetic disputes of the era. A valuable source for anyone interested in the reception and evaluation of the work of painters during the Young Poland and early modern periods.

The book comes from a bibliophilic thematic sub-collection of some 500 specialized titles on Polish painting of the 19th and 20th centuries. A copy in a fine leather binding made in the bindery of the Polish Antiquarian.