Teresa Żarnower: Bodies and Buildings

Polish artist Teresa Zarnower (1895?-1950) is recognized as belonging to the utopian strand of the interwar avant-gardes, those artists, architects, and writers whose works evinced a faith in technology and progress. In 1924, Zarnower co-founded the Warsaw avant-garde group Blok, and co-edited the group's journal. Along with the groups Praesens and a. r., Blok was one of a number of artistic constellations in interwar Poland that encompassed Cubist, Suprematist, and Constructivist tendencies. What these groups shared was not style alone, but rather an investment in architecture as a guiding principle for aesthetic production. [Abridged Publication Abstract]