Paris et les artistes polonais 1945–1989 / Paris and the Polish artists 1945–1989

Paris et les artistes polonais 1945-1989 / Paris and the Polish artists 1945-1989 is a volume dedicated to Polish-French artistic relations after the Second World War, in times dominated politically by communist ideology and defined by Poland’s place within the camp of the countries of ‘people’s democracy’. Since the 1950s, the Polish authorities, discreetly opposed to the political and cultural ideology of Soviet socialist realism, generally rejected in 1955 by artistic circles, promoted modernity based on a model of art-shaped in France – a country that supported Poland politically (with the involvement of the French president Charles de Gaulle) and where the Left held a strong position, with ties to the Communist Party of France. The pro-French policy of Poland (in terms of culture, too) also resulted from the desire to marginalize London as the seat of the Polish government in exile.

Jerzy Malinowski, Foreword / 9

Ewa Bobrowska, Les associations artistiques polonaises en France dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle : vers une intégration du milieu / 15

Jerzy Malinowski, Jewish artists from Poland in post-war Paris / 29

Swietłana Czerwonnaja, Kaunas – Vilnius – Paris: Lithuanian parallel of Polish artistic exile during and after World War II / 49

Piotr Marciniak, Aleksandra Raniewicz, L’émigration polonaise en France, après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale et son influence sur la création de l’espace urbain / 61

Aleksandra Blonka-Drzażdżewska, Jerzy Brodnicki – Van Haardt – une vie, deux biographies / 69

Dorota Szomko-Osękowska, Jan Ekiert – The artist of quiet voice / 77

Ewa Ziembińska, Les sculptrices polonaises à Paris après 1945 / 89

Katarzyna Kulpińska, The graphic work and publishing activities of Franciszek Prochaska (1891-1972) / 101

Paweł Ignaczak, Les graveurs polonais en France après 1945, dans les collections artistiques de la Bibliothèque polonaise de Paris / 111

Tomasz Gryglewicz, Paris Motifs in the Art of Jan Lebenstein as an Image of Man’s Downfall in a Big City / 121

Dorota Grubba-Thiede, From the ‘Wailing Wall’ through affirmative participation to situational ‘whisper’: notes on the Paris works of Wostan, Alina Szapocznikow, Wanda Czełkowska and Andrzej Wojciechowski in years 1946-1973 / 121

Marlena Przybył, Les commencements d'Edward Baran. Vers la dé-matérialisation de la peinture / 143

Małgorzata Stępnik, La non-existence fructueuse. Piotr Szmitke et simulacrum parisien / 153

Anna Zelmańska-Lipnicka, Janusz Strzałecki – artwork revisions and the idea to establish Parisian Studio of Copy as the Gdańsk State Higher School of Fine Arts Department / 167

Małgorzata Geron, Roman Zrębowicz „O nowoczesnym malarstwie francuskim. Wspomnienia i refleksje paryskie” [On modern French painting. Parisian memoirs and reflections] (1959) / 181

Piotr Majewski, Le voyage de Pierre Restany pour la Pologne en 1960 et ses échos dans les écrits du critique / 195
Magdalena Sawczuk,« Chassés du paradis ».Les facettes inconnues de la scène artistique polonaise à Paris après la Seconde Guerre mondiale / 209

Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik, « Dossier Pologne » de la galerie l’Ollave de Lyon / 225
Karolina Zychowicz, The cooperation between the Louise Leiris gallery in Paris and CBWA “Zachęta”. Exhibitions of Pablo Picasso (1965, 1968) and André Beaudin (1968) / 237

Małgorzata Reinhard-Chlanda, Włodzimierz Hodys — between Paris and Kraków / 251

Anna Dzierżyc-Horniak, “Polish art is an interest, otherwise it won’t be seen, as in comparison with what is being done in the world…”. Foksal Gallery and Polish-French artistic relations / 259

Anna Grabowska-Konwent, Roman Cieślewicz – Meanders of Imagination in Archival Order / 269

Agnieszka Kuczyńska, Seulement la liberté. Zbigniew Makowski, Paris and Surrealism in 1962 / 279

Henryka Milczanowska, Nothing objectively existing. Arika Madeyska – a sketch to her portrait / 289

Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz, Searching for the bright spot. The work of Joanna Wierusz-Kowalska-Turowska / 301
Eleonora Jedlińska, Zofia Lipecka – L’Art et l’infinie harmonie du Chaos / 307

Anna Rudek-Śmiechowska, Cryptic notes from everyday life. Michał Batory’s graphic statements / 317

Magdalena Durda-Dmitruk, Mirror Mirages of Gabriela Morawetz / 325

Illustrations / 339

Małgorzata Geron

Jerzy Malinowski

Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz