year of publication: 2014
edited by: Joanna Kordjak-Piotrowska, Stanisław Webel
introduction: Hanna Wróblewska
texts: David Crowley, Joanna Kordjak-Piotrowska, Daniel Muzyczuk, Stanisław Webel, Aleksandra Jatczak, Marian Misiak i Agnieszka Szydłowska, Magdalena Moskalewicz, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Gabriela Świtek, Jan Verwoert
graphic design: Magdalena Frankowska, Artur Frankowski / Fontarte
publisher: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
ISBN: 9788364714047

Accompanying the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art’s exhibition “Cosmos Calling! Art and Science in the Long Sixties”, the book features 12 essays devoted to the visual arts, music, film, design, architecture/urban planning and fashion, viewed in the context of their relationships with science and technology, especially astronautics and cybernetics. The ‘long 1960s’ begin with the post-Stalin scientific-technological revolution announced in the Eastern Bloc after 1956, ending with the onset of the technocratic era introduced in Poland by the new communist Party leader, Edward Gierek, in the early 1970s. In their attempt to describe the world of the 1960s (or at least a fragment thereof), the authors of the show and book give us a chance to see in this historical exhibition not just the past or the would-be future but also the present.