1979 Polish exhibition poster, Peinture contemporaine Polonaise - Swierzy advertising carton A color plate from an

A color plate from an exquisite book called Les Programmes Illustres

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is believed to have been created to promote a book documenting the horrors that took place at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II

1979 Polish exhibition poster, Peinture contemporaine Polonaise - Swierzy advertising carton A color plate from anDate: 1979 Size: 27. 25 x 39 inches Artist: Swierzy, Waldemar About the Poster: Beginning in the 1950s and through the 1980s, the Polish School of Posters combined the aesthetics of painting with the succinctness and simple metaphor of the poster. It developed characteristics such as painterly gesture, linear quality, and vibrant colors, as well as a sense of individual personality, humor, and fantasy. It was in this way that the polish poster was