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GEDERTS ELIASS' INTRODUCTIONS TO BOOKS 'FRENCH CONTEMPORARY PAINTING' AND 'THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF LATVIAN SSR ACADEMY OF ART'. PRINTED TEXT AND LECTURER'S FORTUNE AT THE ACADEMY OF ART AT THE CHANGE OF OCCUPATIONAL POWERS (Gederta Eliasa ievadi gram

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Kalnacs J.

Materiali Latvijas makslas vesturei

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2006

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tom 5

134-155

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Two publications of the so-called Year of Horror - Gederts Eliass' and Kristaps Eliass' 'French Contemporary Painting' (Francu jaunlaiku gleznieciba, 1940 or 1941) and 'The 20th Anniversary of Latvian SSR Academy of Art. 1919-1940' (Latvijas PSR Makslas akademijas 20 gadi. 1919-1940, 1941) - are a significant part of Latvian art literature that have long become bibliographical rarities. This was conditioned by the biases of occupational powers because Nazis withdrew these books from sale; they were completed before Soviet occupation but contained lip-services to the Soviet power. Without introductions by Gederts Eliass who had supported social democratic ideas in his youth none of the books probably would have been printed. At the Latvian State Archive and the Latvian State History Archive there are quite comprehensive documents on the dismissal of professor Gederts Eliass, the last member of the Riga Artists' Group, who worked at the Latvian Academy of Art after the change of occupational powers. The process of dismissal was started in September 1941 and completed in February 1942. These documents clearly demonstrate the mechanism how cultural and educational institutions got rid of 'persons politically exposed during the Bolshevik period'. The board of the Latvian Academy of Art participated in the process initiated by the institutions of Nazi occupation and Latvian self-government. Important arguments in this case were the above-mentioned introductions by Gederts Eliass.

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ARTUR ŻMIJEWSKI, ELOGIO DEL CORPO IMPERFETTO

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Quercioli Mincer L.

pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi

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2021

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nr 12

54-74

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The artistic work of Artur Żmijewski, one of the best-known contemporary Polish artists, is often bold and provocative, playing with the strongest emotions with brutality and at the same time proposing itself as a political and ethical action. The protagonists of Żmijewski’s video and photographic installations are fragile, imperfect, mutilated bodies (Oko za oko), annihilated by suffering (Karolina), old people singing in hospital beds (Nasz śpiewnik), and people occupied with something impossible and incongruous (Lekcja śpiewu). The artistic scenario presented reflects somehow both the world and Poland, it is archaic and contemporary, and characterised by an almost religious pietas combined with a form of poetic insubordination and a ruthless critique of the forms of politics and biopolitics.

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ARTUR ŻMIJEWSKI, ELOGIO DEL CORPO IMPERFETTO

88%

Quercioli Mincer L.

pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi

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2020

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nr 11

54-74

EN

The artistic work of Artur Żmijewski, one of the best-known contemporary Polish artists, is often bold and provocative, playing with the strongest emotions with brutality and at the same time proposing itself as a political and ethical action. The protagonists of Żmijewski’s video and photographic installations are fragile, imperfect, mutilated bodies (Oko za oko), annihilated by suffering (Karolina), old people singing in hospital beds (Nasz śpiewnik), and people occupied with something impossible and incongruous (Lekcja śpiewu). The artistic scenario presented reflects somehow both the world and Poland, it is archaic and contemporary, and characterised by an almost religious pietas combined with a form of poetic insubordination and a ruthless critique of the forms of politics and biopolitics.