Technology revolutions and visual/textual rhetoric: Selected Cases in 20th and 21st Century in East Central Europe

The avant-garde within the borders of the Polish state ca. 1919; the quest for combining modernization with national form in Polish, Jewish, Ukrainian culture

Suggested Bibliography:

A Machine for communicating. Around the Avant-Garde Idea of New Typography. Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2015.The Avant-Garde Applied 1890-1950. Exhibition catalogue, Madrid: Fundacion Juan March, 2012; Myroslava M. Mudrak. The New Generation and Artistic Modernism in the Ukraine. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.

The main avant-garde magazine in Poland was founded by Tadeusz Peiper in 1922 in Kraków; his main collection of manifestoes was published in Lviv in 1925. However, the main impulses seem to have come from Madrid, where Peiper lived between 1915-1920 and was collaborating with Spanish local avant-garde – Ultraism

Suggested Bibliography: Piotr Rypson, ed. Papież awangardy: Tadeusz Peiper w Hiszpanii, Polsce, Europie. Warszawa: Muzeum Narodowe, 2015

The concept of “functional publication” developed from 1922 onward in Poland under the influence of Soviet constructivism and Western tendencies (de Stijl, etc). Is has been later implemented both by publications of the Left (Socialist) as well as of the Communists in Warsaw, Kraków, Lwów etc.

Suggested Bibliography:

A Machine for communicating. Around the Avant-Garde Idea of New Typography. Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2015. The Avant-Garde Applied 1890-1950. Exhibition catalogue, Madrid: Fundacion Juan March, 2012; Andrzej Turowski. Konstruktywizm

This lecture focuses on the recent applications of the avant-garde visual rhetoric in the heated political debate. Constructivist propaganda, Communist & Fascist propaganda, John Heartfield, Mieczysław Berman, political poster, Roman Roman Cieślewicz, Henryk Tomaszewski, political satire, Marek Raczkowski, Twożywo, soccer hooligans, neo-fascism

Suggested Bibliography:

Philip M. Taylor. Munitions of the Mind. A History of Propaganda. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 1995 (introduction); Dawn Ades. Photomontage. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986.