An overview of the art of Stanislav Szukalski. Szukalski (1893-1987) was one of the great sculptors of the 20th Century. Due to geopolitical upheavals in his native land, Poland, a large proportion of his work was destroyed. Yet thanks to the efforts of a group of dedicated art patrons, art critics, and personal acquaintances, the work of Szukalski is being rediscovered. This is the first critical view of his work published since 1923, and contains writings, drawings, and photographs of his sculpture. Szukalski '...was like a caryatid struggling to keep his ideas above the surface of the rising deluge. A flood of political disaster, a capricious tide of artistic dogma overwhelmed his creations and submerged them in a sea of dark obscurity ... His ideas almost died with him, nearly rode out on the horse they rode in on. 'ØHeã loved to sculpt hands; his ingenuity can be measured in the manifold ways that he used them to express his ideas ... The hands are the artist-creator passing ideas to us that glow and shimmer when compared to the dull, mordant concepts that have gained acceptance in the present day ... It is prankish that he is still so unknown.' - from the Foreword by Leonardo & George DiCaprio
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Publisher:Last Gasp,U.S. ISBN:9780867194791 Number of pages:200 Dimensions:279 x 215 mm Language:English
