From Poland with Love

Anda Rottenberg

ISBN 10: 3858818429 / ISBN 13: 9783858818423

Published by Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, CH, 2019

About this Item

Over the period of twelve months, between May 2017 and 2018, Polish-born curator and critic Anda Rottenberg wrote a series of fictitious letters to legendary curator and writer Harald Szeemann (1933-2005). In these pieces, Rottenberg analyses the art and nature of curating and reveals references and relations in the history of art. She questions female artistic positions both in the Eastern and Western Europe and so encourages new individual readings of them. Her letters express a unique rhetoric that take up questions and polemic judgements to amalgamate individual opinion and objective knowledge into a personal history.This is the first publication of the much acclaimed new Muzeum Susch, an initiative of the Polish entrepreneur and art collector Grazyna Kulczyk and her Art Stations Foundation CH.

Seller Inventory # LU-9783858818423

Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Poland with Love
• Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, CH
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858818429
• ISBN 13: 9783858818423
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 710 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Over a period of twelve months, between May 2017 and May 2018, Polish curator and critic Anda Rottenberg wrote a series of fictional letters to the legendary curator and writer Harald Szeemann (1933–2005). In them, she reflects on the art and nature of curation throughout art history. Questioning the position of female artists in both Eastern and Western Europe, Rottenberg encourages new individual readings of them. Her letters display a distinctive rhetoric that raises questions and challenges judgments to amalgamate individual opinion and objective knowledge into a personal history.
 

About the Author

Anda Rottenberg is a curator, art critic, and writer based in Warsaw, Poland, and Tavira, Portugal. She is former director of Warsaw’s Zacheta National Gallery of Art.