Polish avant-garde artistJadwiga Maziarska was one of the most important voices of the Polish avant-garde. Her explorations in the field of "matter painting" were groundbreaking and far ahead of similar attempts by other local artists as well as contemporaries in other countries. Between 1934 39 she studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krak w (with Erna Rosenstein and Tadeusz Kantor). During this period, she was closely associated with the 1st Kra...
That incomparable melancholy in Edward Hopper's pictures occasionally leads us to look at the details of his life. Where exactly did this master of loneliness live and work? What were his most important influences while he was working on his great paintings of America? In this wonderful, simply structured, A-to-Z book, Ulf K ster pursues these themes, which say a great deal about the painter and his interests, and yet he never loses sight of the artist and the necessary dista...
