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The first monograph published outside Poland devoted to Erna Rosenstein's vast, complex and mesmerizing body of work, selected by the New York Times as among the Best Art Books 2021. This is the first ever English-language monograph on the vast and complex oeuvre of Erna Rosenstein (1913-2003), a prolific artist whose varied output was informed by her experience as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. Released on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York, and edited and with a text by exhibition curator Alison Gingeras, this book serves as an introduction to Rosenstein and her story. Alongside an extensive plates section, poems by Rosenstein are included in the book, as well as a special insert reproducing a fairy tale authored and illustrated by the artist. Art historian Dorota Jarecka has also contributed an essay, and the book additionally includes Rosenstein's own narrative testimony of the war in Poland.

Erna Rosenstein: Once Upon a Time

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    A Hardback by Erna Rosenstein, Alison Gingeras, Dorota Jarecka

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      Publisher: Hauser & Wirth
      Publication Date: 01/11/2021
      ISBN13: 9783906915418, 978-3906915418
      ISBN10: 3906915417
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      Book Synopsis
      The first monograph published outside Poland devoted to Erna Rosenstein's vast, complex and mesmerizing body of work, selected by the New York Times as among the Best Art Books 2021. This is the first ever English-language monograph on the vast and complex oeuvre of Erna Rosenstein (1913-2003), a prolific artist whose varied output was informed by her experience as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. Released on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York, and edited and with a text by exhibition curator Alison Gingeras, this book serves as an introduction to Rosenstein and her story. Alongside an extensive plates section, poems by Rosenstein are included in the book, as well as a special insert reproducing a fairy tale authored and illustrated by the artist. Art historian Dorota Jarecka has also contributed an essay, and the book additionally includes Rosenstein's own narrative testimony of the war in Poland.

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