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This mini-album contains over 50 works by one of the greatest artists of the Polish poster – Henryk Tomaszewski.

The book presents the history of Polish graphic tradition leading to the so-called phenomenon of the Polish poster – the history, which starts with the first printing workshops in Krakow in the sixteenth century. It continues with the birth of graphic arts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through workshop experiments in the nineteenth century, modernist transformations, world-famous Polish graphic arts in the interwar period, and the birth of the Polish school of graphic design in the 1930s, leading to the rise of the Polish school of posters in the second half of that century. It then goes on to Solidarity’s affiche brut of the next generation and ultimately the full bloom of a young, poetic and somewhat anarchic poster at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The book presents the works of one of Poland’s most accomplished poster artists, Waldemar Świerzy.

Władysław Ślewiński (1856–1918) — a painter, representative of post-impressionism. From 1888, he stayed in Paris, where he studied and mingled with local artists

The book is dedicated to most significant phenomena and art movements which shaped Polish art during the 40 years under communist rule.

Art Since 1989 is a richly illustrated album on the art of the Third Polish Republic in general.

Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska’s book showcases the artistic and cultural achievements of the interwar Poland, offering an in-depth, multi-faceted study of the period’s architecture, fine arts, industrial design, while accentuating the artistic manifestos of the times and their influence on the lives and work of the most prominent artists.

Another album in the Painting series presents the life and art of one of the most important and original Polish 20th-century female artists — Zofia Stryjeńska — “the princess of Polish painting”.

This mini-album presents nearly 60 works by one of the most distinguished Polish authors of book and press illustrations – Janusz Stanny.

Jan Stanisławski — one of the key representatives of Polish symbolic painting, father of the so-called “Kraków school of landscape art”. He mastered his painting skills in Paris, and travelled to Italy, Spain and Germany.

The seventeenth mini-album in the series on famous Polish poster artists presents the works by Sławomir Iwański, an artist involved with the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and the Łódź Film School.

Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) — graphic designer, painter, draughtsman, as well as writer, author of famous literary texts: Cinnamon Shops and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.