📗 Libro en inglés VISIONS OF AVANT-GARDE FILM

Warsaw and London based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant garde Yet from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s Poland s literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant garde In this comprehensive and accessible study Kamila Kuc draws on myriad undiscovered archival sources to tell the history of early Polish avant garde movements Symbolism Expressionism Futurism and Constructivism and to reveal their impact on later practices in art cinema