Topic: Art & Design / English edition
The 10th anniversary issue of ‘Afterimages’ magazine entitled ‘Art and Design’ coincides with the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, the publisher of the magazine. The issue contains an anthology of selected texts published in the magazine in the last five years (2019-2024), dedicated to art and design subject matter, stemming from the avant-garde traditions of Lodz.
Authors: Monika Krygier, Bożena Kowalska (1930–2023), Jarosław Suchan, Karolina Ziębińska, Paulina Kurc-Maj, Andrzej Owczarek, Grzegorz Sztabiński (1946–2020), Adam Radoń, Ewa Latkowska-Żychska, Lesław Miśkiewicz, Iwona Kościelniak, Agnieszka Sobol, Mariusz Włodarczyk, Maciej Rawluk, Lech Lechowicz, Dorota Stolarska-Kultys, Beata Bochińska, Agnieszka Wojciechowska-Sej, Aleksandra Kietla, Olga Podfilipska-Krysińska, Aleksandra Sumorok
Language: English
Period: 2025
Number of pages: 208
ISSN 2657-652X
Reviewers:
dr Paweł Drabarczyk vel Grabarczyk (Wroclaw University)
prof. Eduardo Kac, Phd (School Art Insitute in Chicago)
FASHION
- Katarzyna Kobro – a sketch for a portrait of a modern woman / Monika Krygier
RE-CONSTRUCTIVISM
- The intransient language of geometry / Bożena Kowalska (1930–2023)
- Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński: in search of a real utopia / Jarosław Suchan & Karolina Ziębińska
- The only right guidepost: a form’ – Władysław Strzemiński, Katarzyna Kobro and De Stijl / Paulina Kurc-Maj
- The first centenary of modernism / Andrzej Owczarek
SPACE
- Stefan Krygier's spaces: re-constructed, continuously constructed, in a state of expansion / Grzegorz Sztabiński (1946–2020)
- Comics, games, science and technology – all of these in the old power station / Adam Radoń
WEAVES
- Between warp and weft / Ewa Latkowska-Żychska
NEW MEDIA
- About the Space of New Media / Lesław Miśkiewicz
- Neuroaesthetic theory of vision / Iwona Kościelniak
ECODESIGN
- Adaptation to Climate Change as a Direction for the Development of Modern Cities – Challenges for Designers / Agnieszka Sobol
- Responsible Design, Responsible Consumption / Mariusz Włodarczyk
REFLECTIONS
- Photography, Poriomania, and Research / Maciej Rawluk
- Intermedial Photographic and Film Activities of Antoni Starczewski / Lech Lechowicz
- Searching for Nothing – Photographic and Multimedia Actions to Bring the Past to Presence / Dorota Stolarska-Kultys
DESIGN [PL]
- Designing Purpose. On Searching for the Meaning of Our Actions in the Age of the Metaverse / Beata Bochińska
- Sit comfortably. The best Polish seating furniture designs according to Beata Bochińska
- Design in ‘the City of Factories and Chimneys’ / Agnieszka Wojciechowska-Sej
- Back to the Future / Aleksandra Kietla
- The Jewellery Collection of Roman Modzelewski from the Collection of Wera Modzelewska / Olga Podfilipska-Krysińska
- Roman Modzelewski. Between Art and Life: A Contribution to His Professional Biography / Aleksandra Sumorok
