A new edition with never-before-published work by artist Stanslav Szukalski.
This hardcover volume collects his portraiture works, including essays and background on many of the artworks.
Inner Portraits provides a major survey of Szukalski's work as draftsman, painter, and sculptor.
This is a new edition: upgraded, expanded, and newly re-designed. Many images and texts in this edition have never been published before.
Third printing.
Stanislav Szukalski (1893–1987) was a Polish-born sculptor, writer, graphic artist, and heretic. Highly regarded in both the US and Poland between the World Wars, he lapsed into obscurity, living and working in “America’s Cultural Siberia” (Southern California) until comic art collector Glenn Bray rediscovered him in 1973.
Szukalski is now the subject of the critically acclaimed 2018 Netflix documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, produced by Leonard DiCaprio:
