Almost Nothing

The 20th-Century Art And Life Of Józef Czapski

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Józef Czapski (1896-1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin's sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life. Eric Karpeles, also a painter, reveals Czapski's full complexity, pulling together all the threads of this remarkable life.

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Eric Karpeles is a painter who writes about visual and literary aesthetics. He is the author of Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time and Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski and is a fellow of the Czeslaw Milosz Institute at Claremont McKenna College.

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November 6th, 2018

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Eric Karpeles

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496

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Main

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General (US: Trade)

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152x227x25

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9781681372846

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28451175

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