Anglo-American University in Prague Agnieszka Taborska – Surrealism | Lecture, book presentation & short movie
We welcome all to join us for an exciting presentation and screening by author Agnieszka Taborska on her work celebrating the 100th anniversary of Surrealism.
Agnieszka Taborska is a writer and art historian specializing in French Surrealism. She divides her time between Warsaw, Poland, and Providence, USA, where she teaches art history and literature at the Rhode Island School of Design.
To date, she has published over twenty books in Polish, translated such authors as Spalding Gray, Roland Topor, Gisèle Prassinos, and Philippe Soupault into Polish, and has had translations of her work appear in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean.
Her books include a collection of essays Conspirators of Imagination: Surrealism, a biography The Archipelagos of Roland Topor, a travel book American Crumbs; the short-story collections The Whale, or Objective Chance and Not as in Paradise, the literary mystifications, The Dreaming Life of Leonora de la Cruz and The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks (both with collage illustrations by American artist Selena Kimball), and a memoir A Woman Awaiting, The Pandemic from a Garret. She received the 2014 Best Polish Children’s Book Award for The Black Imp and Other Sprites and has had her work adapted for the stage and screen (award-winning animated films).
Taborska has also translated into Polish, such as novels by Spalding Gray, Roland Topor, Gisèle Prassinos, and Philippe Soupault. She has curated exhibitions of Surrealist art in France and Poland, has written scripts for plays and documentary films related to Surrealism, and her two literary collaborations with Selena Kimball are experiments that reimagine Surrealism for the postmodern era.