Add this copy of The Best Ever Occupied--": Archaeological to cart. $95.00, good condition, Sold by CorgiPack rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fulton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Univ. of South....
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1989, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Univ. of South...
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South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Univ. of South...
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1989
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English
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VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Very nice clean copy. H "He is a poet who has the ability to distinguish between the colors of the various winds which blow through this world in which man dwells. "1 jan Sawka by Neil C. Trager Jan Sawka is an artist of limitless energy, imagination, and talent. He was born in 1946 in Zabrze, Poland, into a family of intellectuals, artists, and political libertarians. Sawka attended both the Wroclaw Polytechnic Institute, where he studied architecture (a family chosen profession), and the Fine Arts Academy, where he was able to pursue his primary interest, painting. During his student years (1964-1972), he was active in a cultural? underground movement that openly ignored the constraints of the "official" art sanctioned by the Communist government in power. In search of a "free-culture, " Sawka and his contemporaries experimented and explored all avenues of creative expression, defying authority in a spirit analogous to the counter-culture in America at the time. Sawka's contribution to the cultural "underground" in Poland was formidable. Essentially one of its prime movers, he chronicled its activities through magazine and book illustrations and through his biting and sardonic posters.2 He also provided strong creative leadership as the visual director of the innovative, radical STU theatre.3 His independent and innovative style and his position of influence among his contemporaries aggravated the Communist authorities. Sawka's work (and the work of others in his group) was censored, and he was relentlessly harassed. Daily existence became a question of personal survival. Fortunately, Sawka's fate was not to be left in the hands of the bureaucrats who surely would have found ways to terminate his "negative" influence. With great effort and determination he was able to prevail, but not before witnessing the political and personal devastation wrought upon those less able to resist. Sawka's reputation as one of Poland's most talented artists grew steadily. In 1975, he received two prestigious awards: the "Oscardela Peinture" at the International Festival of Painting held at Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France, and a special award for artistic excellence from French President Giscard d'Estaing. (All awards remain the property of the Polish government to this day. ) In 1976, he left Poland to take a position as a resident artist at the newly-opened Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Sawka thrived in Paris. As a direct result of his formidable achievements and the attention focused on him, Sawka slowly gained an international reputation as an artist. His dream of artistic independence was being realized. While in Paris, Sawka's activities were carefully monitored by Polish agents who became increasingly disturbed by their loss of control over him and his new-found international recognition. Efforts to force him to conform to a more traditional position (as a "socialist-artist") failed. The punishment for his defiance was extreme: his passport was revoked, preventing him from ever returning to Poland. 72 pages.
