Art and Politics During the Cold War

ISBN-13: 9781032453354 / Twarda / 2024 / 176 str.

Poland) Wender Michal (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

Opis

Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores the Cold War cultural exchange between so-called ‘smaller powers’ of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspective of the two superpowers or more pivotal countries.  

Spis treści

List of Figures 

Acknowledgements 

List of Abbreviations 

 

Introduction 

Chapter 1: Uneasy Beginnings (1947-1956) 

“Nederland–Polen” as a Front Organisation of the Communist Authorities in Poland 

First attempts at exhibition exchange between Poland and the Netherlands 

Exhibiting Polish Folk Art in the Netherlands 

Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place 

Commemorating Mickiewicz in the Netherlands, and Rembrandt in Poland 

Informal diplomacy through personal mobility 

Other Forms of International Cultural Exchange and Policy 

Chapter 2: Towards the Cultural Agreement (1956-1967) 

A gradual shift in the Dutch international cultural policy towards Poland 

Is it sheer incompetence, or is he maybe a Communist agent? 

Polish artistic invasion in the Netherlands 

Between Rembrandt and Van Gogh – exhibiting Dutch art in Poland 

Other forms of cultural exchange between Poland and the Netherlands 

Towards the Cultural Agreement 

Chapter 3: Détente, but first the Year of Revolt (1968-1979) 

1968 in Poland 

The Impact of the 1968 Events on Cultural Relations 

Polish Counter Measures 

The Delayed Implementation of the Cultural Agreement 

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and its impact on Polish-Dutch cultural relations  

Chapter 4: The Last Decade (1979-1989) 

Bilateral relations before 13 December 1981 

The World and The Hague react to the Polish Crisis 

Towards Normalisation 

Conclusions 

References 

Annex: Cultural Agreement between the Government of the Polish People's Republic and the Government of the Kingdom of The Netherlands 

 

Index 

O autorze

Michał Wenderski, PhD, is an architect and scholar of modern Dutch and Flemish art and literature specialising in the history of cultural relations between Poland and the Low Countries. He currently works at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.