Acknowledgments
This book was originally written as a dissertation titled “Art in Crisis: Artistic Practice from Poland in the Decade of 1939–1949,” which I began in 2012 and defended five years later at the Freie Universität in Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Gregor Stemmrich. I would like first and foremost to thank him for his generous support of my research throughout the years and for his salient critical engagement in the project. I would also like to express my gratitude to my second supervisor, Prof. Noit Banai, for her invaluable advice and open engagement both at the time of finalizing the dissertation and beyond. My research was also made possible through the generous support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Turning my dissertation into a book was a steep learning curve so I hugely appreciated the guidance that I found in the review process, especially from Dr. Klara Kemp-Welch, whom I would like to thank sincerely for her valuable feedback and encouraging me to realize greater ambitions for the project. I will carry many of these valuable insights into my future work as the engagement in the art and exhibitions of the 1940s remains an ongoing interest for me. The process of working on the book manuscript would have been an incomparably more arduous task without the support and experience of the amazing editors and copy editors I had the pleasure
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