Uncensored – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

This richly illustrated catalogue of the exhibition presenting Polish independent art of the 1980s features reproductions of works by almost fifty artists active during the boycott of official institutions that followed the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981. It also contains photographs by Erazm Ciołek, Chris Niedenthal, Jarosław Maciej Goliszewski, and Tadeusz Boruta, documenting exhibitions in Catholic churches, artists’ studios and spontaneous artistic activities in public spaces. Essays by art historians discuss, from various perspectives, the phenomenon of independent culture in the turbulent period of the decline of Communism.