Art in a Disrupted World
Poland 1939–1949
Distributed for Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
300 pages
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60 color plates
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6 1/4 x 9 1/2
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Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Instances of Material Resistance: Portraiture in Concentration Camps
Material Resistance
Drawing Faces
Face and Facelessness in the Portraits of Xawery Dunikowski
The Imaginary Portraits of Zofia Stepin-Bator
Gestures of Resistance: Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz’s Sketchbook
The (Self-) Portraits of Józef Szajna
Chapter 2: Homelessness, Homecoming, and “The Joy of New Constructions”
The Destruction of Houses and The Politics of Homelessness
Imagining Homes for the Homeless
Art as a Home for All
Programmatic Lack of Program
Modernism Against Itself
(Un)doing Modernism
From Friction to Fraction
The Social Fabric and the Surface of the Canvas
Chapter 3: The Dialectics of Ruins and Rubble in Postwar Representations of Warsaw
An Overview of Warsaw’s Ruination
What is a Ruin?
What is Rubble?
“Warsaw Accuses”: Ruins On Display
Drawing Ruins: Affective Chronicles of Time and Place
In a Heap of Rubble
Bibliography
List of Works and Photo Credits
Acknowledgements
Colophon
Chapter 1: Instances of Material Resistance: Portraiture in Concentration Camps
Material Resistance
Drawing Faces
Face and Facelessness in the Portraits of Xawery Dunikowski
The Imaginary Portraits of Zofia Stepin-Bator
Gestures of Resistance: Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz’s Sketchbook
The (Self-) Portraits of Józef Szajna
Chapter 2: Homelessness, Homecoming, and “The Joy of New Constructions”
The Destruction of Houses and The Politics of Homelessness
Imagining Homes for the Homeless
Art as a Home for All
Programmatic Lack of Program
Modernism Against Itself
(Un)doing Modernism
From Friction to Fraction
The Social Fabric and the Surface of the Canvas
Chapter 3: The Dialectics of Ruins and Rubble in Postwar Representations of Warsaw
An Overview of Warsaw’s Ruination
What is a Ruin?
What is Rubble?
“Warsaw Accuses”: Ruins On Display
Drawing Ruins: Affective Chronicles of Time and Place
In a Heap of Rubble
Bibliography
List of Works and Photo Credits
Acknowledgements
Colophon
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