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    • "Darling Look! It’s a Banksy!” Viewers’ Material Engagement with Street Art and Graffiti 

      Hansen, Susan; Flynn, Danny (Łódź University Press, 2016)
      This chapter examines viewers’ affective encounters with street art and graffiti, with attention to the critical framework provided by Rancière (2004), whose work suggests a method for investigating our aesthetic practices ...
    • Mural Painting and The Spirit of The Place Versus Graffiti and Street Art 

      Bensaïd, Halim (Łódź University Press, 2016)
      Since 1978, Cité Création has created worldwide more than 650 mural paintings, frescoes, decorations, stage sets in public and private spaces for inhabitants, visitors and tourists. These monumental creations display ...
    • Aesthetic Energy of an Ordinary Place 

      Kazimierska-Jerzyk, Wioletta (Łódź University Press, 2016)
      The paper discusses the transformation of not a very representative part of the city, important however for the community that resides there. The author keeps track of how a seemingly rather ineffective change, which is ...
    • Urban Space: The Phenomena of Unfinished in the Cities of Montenegro 

      Stamatovic Vuckovic, Slavica (Łódź University Press, 2016)
      Throughout the history of civilisation and architecture, the phenomenon of unfinished has been constantly present. Many historical and sociopolitical developments have caused some buildings and urban areas never to be ...
    • Sztuka awangardowa w XIX-wiecznej fabryce 

      Sowińska-Heim, Julia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      The Art Museum in Łódź, whose collections are well-known in the international arena, is not yet situated in its own modern museum building. A unique set of the international avantgarde works included in the Museum’s 1930s ...
    • New Urban Decorum? City Aesthetics To And Fro 

      Remesar, Antoni (Łódź University Press, 2016)
      From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a more beautiful city”, answering to the jump from the industrial city to the metropolitan one, and then to the different ...
    • Street Art and Space 

      Gralinska-Toborek, Agnieszka (Łódź University Press, 2016)
      Various forms of street art, such as murals, anamorphic painting or urban interventions, become an important component of urban space. The paper examines examples of selected works of urban art in the context of space and ...
    • Ochrona dziedzictwa kulturowego na przykładzie ewangelicko-augsburskiej części Starego Cmentarza przy ul. Ogrodowej w Łodzi 

      Stefański, Krzysztof Stanisław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      An issue of the cultural heritage protection is at the moment the most current question, as in Poland, as in whole Europe. The city of Łódź is a distinctive case – at the turn of the 19th and 20th century it was the ...
    • Rzecz nie tylko o architekturze. Buenos Aires – „europejskie” miasto Ameryki Południowej 

      Kubiak, Ewa (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      Buenos Aires at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was a remarkable city, and its image was changing very quickly. It has had a distinctly “European” character, which is strongly present today. “Europeanisation” of ...
    • O architekturze europejskiej w Malakce 

      Sadowski, Łukasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      The city of Malacca was founded ca. 1400 by Iskander Shah, but it belonged to Malays only for a century. From 1511 till 1957 this town was in possession of Europeans. As one of the main ports in the Far East it played a ...
    • „Polscy monachijczycy” wobec tradycji i zjawisk kulturowych XIX/XX w. 

      Scholz, Piotr O. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      The aim of this article is to present the existence and great significance of some of the most prominent Polish artists studying at the Munich Academy of Arts, in private art schools in Munich, and in the Munich Art ...
    • Galeria arcybiskupów gnieźnieńskich na zamku w Uniejowie 

      Bania, Zbigniew (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      Decorating the main representative rooms in Polish modern mansions with the series of family portraits or major secular and ecclesial dignitaries became popular during the 16th century. We have information about the ...
    • Namiętności ducha, czyli sztuka narodowa na Powszechnej Wystawie Światowej w Paryżu w 1900 r. 

      Jedlińska, Eleonora (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      A review of the works which were displayed at the Exposition of the Decade (Grand Palais) indicates how essential the national aspect was for individual countries – an aspect shaped at the turn of the century by such ...
    • Sztuka w przestrzeni, czyli o twórczości Leszka Mądzika 

      Łarionow, Dominika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      The article presents the work of Leszek Mądzik, founder of Scena Plastyczna (Visual Stage), the theater existed since the 70s of the 20th century, at the Catholic University of Lublin. Performances of the theater are not ...
    • „Teoria widzenia” Władysława Strzemińskiego i „O nową organizację Muzeów Sztuki” Mariana Minicha, czyli jak patrzeć sztukę 

      Kurc-Maj, Paulina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      The theme of the article is a new methodology for art history studies proposed in Władysław Strzemiński’s book The Theory of Vision and Marian Minich’s For the New Organization of Art Museums, the texts which are still ...
    • Mit jako pretekst do refleksji nad kryzysem kultury 

      Gralinska-Toborek, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      As early as in the 19th century, philosophers such as Friedrich Schiller and Friedrich Schelling noted the crisis of contemporary culture contrasting it with idealized model of classical Greece. Contemporary artists who ...
    • Polska ilustracja modernistyczna a Weyssenhoffowie 

      Pawłowska, Aneta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      The purpose of this text is a brief presentation and an introduction to the figure of a somewhat forgotten Polish artist Henryk Weyssenhoff (1859–1922). He was a truly complete artist who was thoroughly educated at the ...
    • W atelier artysty. Pracownie malarzy łódzkich 1890–1939 

      Grzejszczak, Łukasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      The artist’s studio was an important part of the creative process in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The article is an attempt to present the current status of research into artists’ studios in Łódź that for various ...
    • Wanda Nowakowska. Bibliografia 

      Jedlińska, Eleonora (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
    • Empatia w sztuce – dawniej i dziś 

      Sztabiński, Grzegorz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
      At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, scholars began to include the notion of empathy in their reflections on art; such a perspective was aimed at revaluing basic aesthetic issues. The article summarizes the core ...