The visual artist Jan Sawka (1946–2012) is best known for his painting and printmaking: his works are in the collections of over sixty international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. holds a collection of his intaglio prints, the largest by any single artist in the fine print section of the library. While interest in Sawka’s art has remained strong in the years since his death, it seems to have especially grown in the last two years, with solo exhibitions in 2020 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at the State University of New York–New Paltz and at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art at California State University, San Bernardino. In conjunction with these two shows, a number of events have generated a continuing presence online. Some were among the earliest...
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January 2023
January 01 2023
Jan Sawka: Theatre of Image and Metaphor
Kathleen Cioffi
Kathleen Cioffi
Kathleen Cioffi is a theatre historian who lived in Poland in the 1980s and frequently writes about Polish theatre. She is the author of Alternative Theatre in Poland, 1954–1989, and with Magda Romanska, she co-edited Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context.
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Kathleen Cioffi
Kathleen Cioffi is a theatre historian who lived in Poland in the 1980s and frequently writes about Polish theatre. She is the author of Alternative Theatre in Poland, 1954–1989, and with Magda Romanska, she co-edited Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context.
Online ISSN: 1537-9477
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© 2023 Kathleen Cioffi
2023
Kathleen Cioffi
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2023) 45 (1 (133)): 64–75.
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Kathleen Cioffi; Jan Sawka: Theatre of Image and Metaphor. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 2023; 45 (1 (133)): 64–75. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00643
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