Art in a Disrupted World Abnormal psychology With access to the hotel

With access to the hotel cut off

to bugs and hedgehogs in parks and gardens

Beautifully produced with cut-out sections and fold-out pages

A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity

Art in a Disrupted World Abnormal psychology With access to the hotelWith Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish born artists that were created in concentration camps and ghettos, in exile, and during the years of social, political, and cultural disintegration immediately following the war. She draws attention to the ethics of artistic practice as