"Fugitives from Culture": The Polish Neo-Avant-Garde and Beyond

This richly illustrated exhibition and sale catalog serves as a comprehensive introduction to unofficial art in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s, based on difficult-to-access, mostly handmade artists' books, magazines, multiples, posters and other ephemera, as well as photographs, drawings and autographs.

Art-historical interest in the relatively unexplored underground art behind the Iron Curtain is growing. These groups saw themselves less as "avant-gardes" and more as "fugitives from culture" who worked outside the established cultural institutions in East and West. Various groups developed new practices for producing, showing, critiquing, and archiving art.