III. Workshop

Here we look closely at six works. Their histories emerge in fragments.

We catch glimpses of the various forces that influenced them: The biographies of their makers, collectors, commissioners, sellers: Poles, Germans, Jews. Communist politics and propaganda. Catholicism. Popular cultural clichés. Afterimages and echoes of other works. Museums, exhibitions, competitions. The folk art industry. Kitsch, violence, and obscenity.