The Polish Book Institute

Does Poland have to evoke only one association across the ocean – as the centre of the Holocaust? Is it possible to restore in its image the sense of pride, freedom, and energy that radiates from a portrait of Lisowczyk – The Polish Rider that can be admired in the Frick Collection in New York? Or maybe it is worth showing our Sarmatian heritage with a hint of self-irony, the Gombrowicz way, or even some kind of melancholy that a portrait of A Polish nobleman, in another museum, in Washington, also painted by Rembrandt, performs so perfectly? How to tear off the screws put to the ‘mugs’ of the Republic of Poland and show the true faces of its civic history?