这本令人惊叹的专著是对波兰艺术家约瑟夫•恰普斯基(Jozef Czapski, 1896-1993年)的批判性评价。在这些文章中，作者埃里克·卡佩莱斯(Eric Karpeles)表达了艺术创作是如何与察普斯基的世界观和存在方式如此紧密地结合在一起，以至于成为了他的第二天性。考虑到他活到了97岁，这位艺术家的作品可以追溯到20世纪的**个十年，也就不足为奇了。作为那个世纪动荡事件的见证者，他在绘画中找到了“避难所和救赎”。

This stunning monograph, a long-

overdue critical appraisal of Polish artist Józef Czapski (1896–1993), arrives at a moment when the artist’s legacy is gaining new recognition. Within these pages, author Eric Karpeles conveys how making art was so enmeshed with Czapski’s way of seeing and being in the world that it was second nature. Given that he lived into his 97th year, it’s no surprise that the artist has works dating from every decade of the 20th century but the first. As witness to the tumultuous events of that century, he found in painting ‘a refuge and a salvation’.