Royal College of Art

Faculty Member, Critical Writing in Art and Design

Professor

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David Crowley trained as a historian and now combines art and design history with criticism. He has published a number of books including National Style and Nation-state: Design in Poland (MUP, 1992) Graphic Design: Reproduction and Representation (with Paul Jobling, MUP, 1996) Warsaw (Reaktion, 2003); Style and Socialism and Socialist Spaces (with Susan Reid, Berg, 2002 and 2002) and Pleasures in Socialism (Northwestern University Press, 2010). He was consultant curator of Cold War Modern. Design 1945-1970 at the V&A Museum in London (2008-09); co-curator of 'Roman Cieslewicz' at the Royal College of Art (July and August 2010) and 'The Power of Fantasy: Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland' at BOZAR, Brussels (summer 2011 with a book published by Prestel). He regularly writes for the art and design press and is on the editorial board of Eye magazine. He now runs the Critical Writing in Art and Design programme at the Royal College of Art. He is currently writing a book on the intertwined histories of photography and communism.

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