Michał Wenderski - Cultural Mobility in the Interwar Avant-Garde Art Network: Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands

This book explores the issue of cultural mobility within the interwar network of the European avant-garde, focusing on selected writers, artists, architects, magazines and groups from Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Regardless of their apparent linguistic, cultural and geographical remoteness, their mutual exchange and relationships were both deep and broad, and of great importance for the wider development of interwar avant-garde literature, art and architecture. This analysis is based on a vast research corpus encompassing original, often previously overlooked periodicals, publications and correspondence gathered from archives around the world.

Micha Wenderski, PhD, is an architect, translator and scholar of modern Dutch literature specialising in the history of European interwar avant-garde. He currently works at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna, Poland.

Henryk Staewski, cover design for Grafika 4 from 1931 (detail; Ryszard Cichy Collection) and Theo van Doesburg, Compositie XX from 1920 (detail; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)

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Cultural Mobility in the Interwar Avant-Garde Art Network
Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands
Micha Wenderski

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Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands

Micha Wenderski

First published 2019
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wenderski, Micha, author.
Title: Cultural mobility in the interwar avant-garde art network : Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands/Micha Wenderski.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge research in art history | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018002567 | ISBN 9781138493544 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351027908 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Arts, Polish20th century. | Arts, Belgian20th century. | Arts, Dutch20th century. | ArtistsSocial networksPolandHistory 20th century. | ArtistsSocial networksBelgiumHistory20th century. | ArtistsSocial networksNetherlandsHistory20th century.
Classification: LCC NX571.P6 W46 2018 | DDC 709.438/0904dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018002567

ISBN: 978-1-138-49354-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-02790-8 (ebk)

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