Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Guest Co-Editor (with Adrienne Kochman), Parallel Narratives: Construction of National Art Histories in Central Europe, Centropa 8, no. 3 (September 2008).
Partisan Canons. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, October 2007.
An anthology exploring the mechanics of canon formation and maintenance. Contributors include: Jenny Anger, Marcia Brennan, James E. Cutting, Paul Duro, James Elkins, Barbra Jaffee, Robert Jensen, Jane C. Ju, Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Julie L. McGee, Terry Smith, and Linda Stone-Ferrier.
Guest Co-Editor (with Peter Chametzky), Modernism and Nationalism, Postmodernism and Postnationalism?, Centropa 1, no. 3 (September 2001).
Essays and Articles
“On Bad Influence and Marginal Value,” Third Text no. 101 (November 2009).
“Art Ethics: Thomas Kinkade and Contemporary Art.” In Thomas Kinkade. The Artist in the Mall, edited by Alexis Boylan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2009.
“Art and Kitsch.” In Kitsch, edited by Monica Kjellman-Chapin. New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming in 2009.
“National and Universal Art History, or National Art from a Local Perspective,” Centropa 8, no. 3 (September 2008): 281-291.
“From Guilds to Professional Associations: A Brief Overview of Fine Arts and Crafts Organizations” (in Chinese only), Art Observations (Beijing) no. 157, special issue: Art Associations (September 2008): 281-291.
“The Paradox of the Ethnographic Superaltern: Ethnonationalism and Tourism in the Polish Tatra Mountains at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century,” RES 53/54, special issue: Anthropology and Aesthetics (Spring/Autumn 2008): 280-290.
“Old Media, New Media, Inter-Media, Trans-Media: A Historic Perspective,” Media-N 4, no. 4 (Spring 2008): http://newmediacaucus.org/journal/issues.php?f=papers&time=2008_spring&page=brzyski
"Foreign or Native: Perception and Reception of Impressionism in Polish Art Criticism, 1876-1893," Centropa 8, no. 1 (January 2008): 67-85.
"What’s in a Name? Artist-Run Exhibition Groups and the Branding of Modern Art in Fin de Siècle Europe," 19th Century Art Worldwide 6, no. 2 (Fall 2007): http://19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn_07/articles/brzy.shtml.
"The Problem of Modernism: Art Parctice under the Gaze of Art History." In Modernism and Central and East European Art & Culture, Osaka University, the 21st Century COE Program
"New Media and the Art Canon in the Age of Digital Dissemination." In Image Flux: China, the 13th Sedona Conference and Converations Proceedings, edited by Megan McShane and Wu Jie (Guangzhou, China: Flux Image Theory Group, 2006), 110-115 ; Chinese translation, 106-109.
“Centres and Peripheries: Language Barriers and Cultural Geography of European Modern Art.” In Local Strategies-International Ambitions. Modern Art and Central Europe, 1918-1968, edited by Vojetch Lahoda. Prague: Artefactum, 2006, 21-27.
“Constructing the Canon: The Album Polish Art and the Writing of the Modernist Art History Polish 19th-Century Painting,” 19th Century Art Worldwide 3, no. 1 (Spring 2004): http://19thc-artworldwide.org/spring_04/articles/brzy.html.
“‘Unsere Polen…’: Polish Artists and the Vienna Secession,” in Art and National Identity at the Turn of the Century, edited by Michelle Facos and Sharon Hirsh, 65-89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
“Between the Nation and the World: Nationalism and Emergence of Polish Modern Art,” Centropa 1, no. 3 (September 2001): 165-179.
“Retracing the Modernist Origins: Conceptual Parallels in the Aesthetic Thought of Charles Baudelaire and G. W. F. Hegel,” Art Criticism 12:1(Fall 1997): 95-111.
“To Signify a Nation: The Problem of Polish Fin de Siècle Landscape Painting,” Chicago Art Journal 6, no.1 (Spring 1996): 27-39.
Translations
Piotr Piotrowski, In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989. London: Reaktion Books, 2009.
Exhibition Catalogues, Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles, etc.
“Dana Hargrove: Divide and Consider.” Exhib. Cat. essay. Philadelphia: Bridgette Meyer Gallery, 2008, np.
"The Art History of the Former Soviet Block," [book review: Art Design and Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920 by Elizabeth Clegg], The Art Newspaper 16, no. 176 (January 2007): 42.
"Review: Beyond the Canon [Poza Canonem], by Janina Sosnowska." Centropa 5, no. 1 (January 2005): 71-5.
Managing Editor, Joel Feldman. Annotated Landscapes. Exhib. Cat. Mt. Vernon, IL: Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, 2004.
“Poland.” In Encyclopedia of Sculpture. Antonia Boström, ed. New York: Routledge, 2003.
“Review: Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe, edited by Susan E. Reid and David Crowley.” Centropa 2, no. 3 (September 2002): 232-3.
Work in Progress
Inventing Contemporary Art. Nationalism, Historicism, Modernism in Fin de Siècle Central Europe
The book examines the impact of a diverse array of internal and external factors, in particular nationalism and historicism, on the initial development and reception as well as eventual mainstream success of modern Polish art.
Natural Culture. The Politics of Art in the Age of Art History
The book examines interdependence of art history and anthropology within the Western discourse on culture, and their mutual impact on definition, interpretation, promotion, and production of art in the period from the 18th century to the present.