Young Poland

Featured on the Financial Times’s list of ‘Best new art books for autumn’, 2020‘The spirit of Young Poland deserves the attention this book gives’ - Art Quarterly magazine“The book is well-researched and beautifully illustrated. With such diverse work within a single movement, the illustrations take on particular importance. It provides a helpful overview of the movement, its key people, places and ideas. Then, a series of seven studies of objects and crafts practices provides more in-depth perspectives.” - Studio International‘Having presented a comprehensive overview of the ethos of Young Poland along with an account of its main protagonists, in the second half of the catalogue the editors provide an extensive visual display of the artefacts and designs produced by members of this movement… Taken together, these treasures along with the catalogue essays which provide an insightful overview of how they came to be made, serve to show how protean and culturally vital the Young Poland movement was.’ – Pre-Raphaelite Review

Julia Griffin (née Dudkiewicz) is an art historian and curator specialising in the Arts & Crafts Movement and Victorian painting. Her PhD explores William Morris and D.G. Rossetti (Central Saint Martins, UAL). Julia has been responsible for a number of innovative exhibitions and permanent collection rehangs, notably the City’s New Collection Displays (2015) at the Guildhall Art Gallery, for which she was awarded Freedom of the City of London. Recent publications include contributions to May Morris. Art and Life (William Morris Gallery, 2017) and Routledge Research Companion to William Morris (2020).

Andrzej Szczerski is Director of the National Museum in Kraków and Professor in the Art History Department at Jagiellonian University. He has published extensively on 20th-century art, design, and architecture, including a pioneering study on the reception of British art in Central Europe Views of Albion, The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe (1890–1918). He has curated exhibitions on 19th and 20th century art and architecture, and in 2009 he co-curated “Symbolism in Poland and Britain” at the Tate Britain in London.