Agnieszka Taborska

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Agnieszka Taborska
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Born (1961-01-13) 13 January 1961 (age 64)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Occupations
  • Writer
  • art historian
  • specialist in surrealism
  • translator
  • educator

Agnieszka Taborska (born 1961 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer, art historian, specialist in Surrealism, translator, and educator. [1]

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Life and work

She received MAs from the University of Warsaw (art history, 1986 and French philology, 1987). She lives in Warsaw and Providence, Rhode Island. [2]

Taborska has been a lecturer on European art, film and literature at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1988. Her main areas of interest are French surrealism and how women are portrayed in Western art and literature of the late 19th and early 20th century.

She has curated exhibitions of Surrealist art in France and Poland.

From 1996 to 2004, she taught at the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art.

She is the author of essays, short stories, books for children, and novels in which her humor, care for language, and knowledge of Surrealism play important role. Her books have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. They have been illustrated by eminent artists such as Józef Wilkoń, [3] Lech Majewski, [4] Antoni Boratyński, Franciszek Maśluszczak, [5] Andrzej Klimowski, [6] Mieczysław Wasilewski, Selena Kimball, [7] Krystyna Lipka-Sztarbałło, [8] and Aleksandra Gołębiewska. [9]

Films (Crazy Clock and A Fisherman at the Bottom of the Sea, made in 2009 and 2011 by Leszek Gałysz; [10] theatre plays (The Office of Lost Dreams, based on The Dreaming Life of Leonora de la Cruz, by the Compagnie Miettes de Spectacle, Paris, 2010 [11] [12] and The Black Imp never sleeps, Teatr Uszyty, Krakow, 2016); an opera (The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks, Społeczny Chór Czarnego Karła, Bydgoszcz, 2019), and a radio play (Someone is Knocking at the Wall, Teatr Miniatura, Gdańsk, 2015) have been adapted from her works. [13] [14]

She has written adapted screenplays for animated films based on her children's books as well as scripts for documentary films on art. [15]

Agnieszka Taborska has also collaborated with numerous Polish art, literature, and film magazines: Literatura na Świecie, Tygodnik Powszechny, Gazeta Wyborcza, Czas Kultury, Obieg, Machina, Film na Świecie, Kwartalnik Filmowy, and dwutygodnik.com. [16]

She has translated authors such as Philippe Soupault, Roland Topor, Gisèle Prassinos, and Spalding Gray into Polish.

Novels

Short stories

Essays

Other publications

Children's books

Film scripts and adaptations

Selected essays in collective books

Awards

Reviews

Interviews with Agnieszka Taborska (in Polish)

References

  1. "Agnieszka TABORSKA". www.editions-interferences.com. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  2. "Agnieszka Taborska". Rhode Island School of Design. 4 January 2024.
  3. https://culture.pl/en/artist/josef-wilkon [ dead link ]
  4. "Lech Majewski :: Retroavangarda".
  5. "Franciszek Maśluszczak | Art Auction Results". www.mutualart.com.
  6. "Andrzej Klimowski".
  7. "Selena Kimball". Selena Kimball.
  8. "Krystyna Lipka-Sztarbałło". Culture.pl.
  9. "Aleksandra Gołębiewska on Behance".
  10. "Festiwal Animator Poznań, 9–15.07.2021 -".
  11. "Office of Lost Dreams". 17 December 2010 via www.youtube.com.
  12. "Biuro Snów Zagubionych 2 / Office of Lost Dreams 2". 26 December 2011 via www.youtube.com.
  13. "Reading:Artistic fictions". Austrian Cultural Forum – New York City. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  14. "Agnieszka Taborska". Polish cultural institute – New York. 17 March 2019.
  15. "FilmPolski.pl".
  16. "Dwutygodnik | Szukaj".
  17. "Translation Tuesday: Selections from A Woman Awaiting (The pandemic from a garret) by Agnieszka Taborska". 15 September 2020.
  18. "Translation Tuesday: The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks by Agnieszka Taborska – extract". TheGuardian.com . 13 September 2016.
  19. "Agnieszka Taborska". 15 March 2014.
  20. "auieo.mx". www.auieo.mx.
  21. "Agnieszka Taborska y la leyenda de Leonora de la Cruz". 12 January 2017.
  22. Taborska, Agnieszka. "The Dreaming Life of Leonora De La Cruz". www.editions-interferences.com.
  23. "La vie songeuse de Leonora de la Cruz, A. Taborska, trad. de V. Patte, illus. de S. Kimball, Interférences, 2007". April 2018.
  24. "Talentueuses: La vie songeuse de Leonora de la Cruz". 23 March 2014.
  25. "The Whale, or Objective Chance | InTranslation". intranslation.brooklynrail.org.
  26. "Crazy, Real, Supernatural! The World of the Surrealists". 10 December 2021.
  27. "The Sea, or the Poet at Work – Asymptote". www.asymptotejournal.com.
  28. "from The World Has Gone Mad: A Surrealist Handbook How to Survive by Agnieszka Taborska".
  29. "Rybak na dnie morza – trailer".
  30. "Szalony zegar".
  31. "Opera Społeczna – Phoebe Hicks".
  32. "spektakl Licho nie śpi".
  33. "Ktoś stuka za ścianą".
  34. "Marcin Gizycki | RISD". www.risd.edu.