Magdalena Abakanowicz. The splendid artist of the 1960`s

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Art - History of Art grade: 10 course: Polish Contemporary Art language: English abstract: Magdalena Abakanowicz is an extraordinary artist somebody who´s scale of work of different techniques ways of expression is really grand and widespreaded. It is an artist influenced by a dramatic and often tragic background and lived through different political tensions in Poland so that also the political psychological background is important for the understanding of the work of Abakanowicz. In this essay only a short overview can be given but the spectrum of her work is much more extensive.