Wojciech Fangor: Color and Space

The first international publication dedicated to the Polish painter, graphic designer, poster artist, and sculptor. Fangor received scholarships from the Institute for Contemporary Art in Washington, DC (1962) and the Ford Foundation in West Berlin (1964-65). In 1965-66, he taught at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, and from 1966-83, he led classes at Farleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J. in the United States. In 1967-68, he conducted guest lectures at the Faculty of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1970, he created sets for the Martha Graham Dance Company. In 1978, he received the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award, and in 2003, he was awarded The Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland Award.

Magdalena Dabrowski, American art historian, PhD, independent scholar, curator, and art consultant for modern and contemporary art. Former Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, she later served as Special Consultant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Hans-Ulrich Obrist is an art curator, critic, and art historian. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London.

The first international publication dedicated to one of Poland's most prominent artists. A painter, poster designer and sculptor, Wojciech Fangor (1922-2015) is a household name in 20th-century Polish art, alongside Magdalena Abakanowicz, Roman Opalka and Tadeusz Kantor. Initially interested in Cubism, during the Stalinist years he followed the officially approved doctrine of Socialist Realism. After Stalin's death, Fangor focused on architectural and industrial design as well as on posters, being one of the founders of the Polish school of poster design, which won international acclaim in the 1960s. He also achieved recognition for his abstract paintings, initially in monochromatic colours, featuring circles, ellipses and waves.

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