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Art in Exile - Polish Painters in Post-War Britain (Paperback)
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Art in Exile - Polish Painters in Post-War Britain (Paperback)
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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. The author
Douglas Hall, who was the first Keeper of the Scottish National
Gallery of Modern Art and still lives in Scotland, is known for his
sympathy with the underdog and his interest in unfashionable or
belittled values and modes of expression in modern art. The
appearance of this book is timely. Since the author first began to
study the subject the perception of Poland in Britain has changed
utterly. Further integration of Poland into the European community
should lead to further exchanges of art between the two countries.
If it does not, it may not be for economic reasons alone, but may
be further evidence of the reluctance of Western art authorities to
take East European art, as a whole, seriously. The book suggests a
beginning in better understanding by starting with those Poles who
became British, and whose work for the most part is still here, a
part of British art that is for ever Polish.
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