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photo: Grazyna Makara
Read selections from her work:
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[on Surrealism]
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agnieszka taborska
Agnieszka Taborska is a writer and art historian specializing in French Surrealism. She divides her time between Warsaw,
Poland, and Providence, USA, where she teaches art history and literature at the Rhode Island School of Design. To date,
she has published nearly two dozen books in Polish, and translations of her work have appeared in English, French, German,
Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Her books include a collection of essays Conspirators of Imagination: Surrealism, a biography
The Archipelagos of Roland Topor, a travel book American Crumbs; the short fiction collections The Whale, or
Objective Chance and Not as in Paradise, the literary mystifications combining image and text to reimagine Surrealism
for the postmodern era, The Dreaming Life of Leonora de la Cruz
and The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks (both with collage illustrations
by American artist Selena Kimball), a memoir A Woman Awaiting, The Pandemic from a Garret,
and A World Gone Mad: A Surrealist Survival Handbook, translated into
French in 2024 and forthcoming
in English. She received the 2014 Best Polish Children’s Book Award for The Black Imp and Other Sprites and has had her work
adapted for the stage and screen (award-winning animated films). In addition Taborska has translated into Polish the works of Surrealists
such as Roland Topor, Gisèle Prassinos, and Philippe Soupault, curated exhibitions of Surrealist art in France and Poland, and written
scripts for plays and documentary films related to Surrealism.
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published by TSP :
The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks
forthcoming :
A World Gone Mad: A Surrealist
Survival Handbook
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