A Unique Object in Mass Production
Research on So-Called Cooperative Jewelry of the Polish People’s Republic and Its Exhibitions from Private Collections
Abstract
Since around 2000, there has been a clearly noticeable interest in the design and production of Polish jewelry after 1945, popularly called jewelry of the Polish People’s Republic and treated as historic and collector’s items. This “research area” is still being explored in the context of Polish art, as evidenced by the growing number of publications – articles, monographs and exhibition catalogues. The catalogues of exhibitions organised after 2000, accompanying the exhibitions of artefacts, can be considered a kind of summary of the stages of research on jewellery of the Polish People’s Republic, but also as opening new paths of interpretation and analysis. It must be acknowledged, however, that this is still an early stage, and the research is multi-layered, beginning with findings regarding the scale of production, continuing through the findings of jewelry designers, and concluding with attempted syntheses regarding the development of jewelry design in the communist era. The text was prepared using critical analysis of scientific texts and analysis of factual data.
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