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Edyta Supińska - Polit Ph.D.

Duty hours in the summer semester 2007/2008:

• Tuesday, 13.00 - 14.00
• Friday, 9.15 - 10.00

M.A. in English Studies ( Institute of English Studies, Warsaw University, 1982), and in History of Art (Cardinal Wyszyński University, Warsaw,1988 and Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 1990). Ph. D. from the University of Warsaw in 2002 for the dissertation on Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott and the idea of the Arts&Crafts house.

Worked, i.a., as a free-lance translator; education officer at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (1990-92). Since 1993 at the Institute of English Studies of Warsaw University. In 1993 co-organized Days of Silence, at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, a project, devoted to John Cage; in 1999 curated the Polish display of the Baillie Scott. The Artistic House,exhibition at the International Cultural Centre at Cracow.

Lectured on British and Polish art and architecture " at the "Zachęta" Gallery in Warsaw, Centre for Christianity and the Arts of the University of Kopenhagen, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Institute of Art History of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Research and visiting fellowships: i.a. The British Council (1989-90, 1991, 1996), The Royal Society of Edinburgh (2004), the Rector 's of Warsaw University (2004-5), Basil Samuel Trust (2005).

Areas of research: art. and architecture of the British Isles; Polish and European modernism in arts, architecture and design, 20th century architecture, English garden.

Publications:

Books:

• Dom Arts and Crafts. Geneza i Idea (The Arts and Crafts House. Origin and Idea), , Warszawa: Neriton, 2005

Articles:

• "Krajobraz rzeźbiarza. Rzeźby Barbary Hepworth i Henry Moore'a w parkach Londynu" , Rzeźba Polska nr 2, 1987
• "Temat Ukrzyżowania w Twórczości Francisa Bacona", Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, LI, nr 3-4, 1989
• "Recepcja tworczości Francisa Bacona w latach 1945-62", Kresy, nr 30, luty 1997
• "Dom Baillie Scotta czyli zamieszkiwanie poetyckie" / "'Poetically Man Dwells'... Baillie Scott's House" (in Polish and English) w: Baillie Scott. Dom Dziełem Sztuki/Baillie Scott. The Artistic House (exhibition cat), Crakow: International Cultural Centre, 1999).
• " 'Heaven's Angels with Grinding Organs. John Ruskin's Idea of Life '", Analecta Husserliana. The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol.LXVII, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
• "Kilka słów o twórczości Teresy Murak, prywatnie"/ "A few private words on the work of Teresa Murak" ( wersja polska i angielska) w: Spotkania krakowskie 2000. Do, Od. (katalog wystawy), Kraków: Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, 2000, str. 54-55
• "Seed and growth. The art of Teresa Murak", Analecta Husserliana. The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol.LXXVII, Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
• " 'Fiat Domus': The Passion for Place and Melsetter House in the Orkney", Phenomenological Inquiry, vol. 27, October 2003.
• " 'The world is different here': Arts and Crafts in the Polish Tatras", Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, vol. 9, 2004

Reviews:

• "Kevin Atherton. Pokaz indywidualny", Rzeźba Polska, nr 3, 1988
• "Michael Sandle. Pomnik XX Wieku", Rzeźba Polska, nr 4, 1990

Courses:

• "Behind the Image: An Introduction to Polish Art": kurs przeznaczony dla studentów uniwersytetów amerykańskich
• "Christianity and the Arts in Poland around 2000"
• "Christianity and the Arts in Poland at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries"
• "British Art. in the 20th Century". Cz. I i II
• "An Introduction to American Architecture in the 20th Century"
• "The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain"
• "'H' is for House: the idea of the Arts and Crafts house"
• "British art through ten centuries. A synoptic view"
• "Domestic architecture in England and Scotland"