Szukalski is now the subject of the critically acclaimed 2018 Netflix documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Foreword by Leonardo and George DiCaprio The range of Szukalski's achievements in sculpting, drawing, painting, theorizing, and writing is finally reckoned with in Struggle, the title of both this book and the first major retrospective of his art scheduled for early 2001. The book includes over 100 color and black-and-white photos and illustrations; an essay by Eva Kirsch and Donat Kirsch placing the artist's work in historical and aesthetic context; who knew him; and the artist's commentary on selected works.

Struggle: The Art of Szukalski

Arts & Photography

Szukalski, Stanislav

Individual Artists

Last Gasp

Szukalski is now the subject of the critically acclaimed 2018 Netflix documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonard DiCaprio Stanislav Szukalski (1893 1987) was an artist, anthropologist, and member of Chicago's artistic elite during the 1920s who spent his last years in obscurity. Today he is remembered for his political and scientific views and his brilliant sculptures. Inner Portraits provides a major survey of his work as draftsman, painter, and sculptor.

Inner Portraits

History & Criticism

Szukalski was not only a prolific artist in a number of media but also an original thinker. In Behold!!! The Protong, he posits a theory that all languages derive from a single source, the protong. With selections from over 40,000 illustrations related to Zermatism, the book explores the universal search for humankind’s original language.

Behold!!! the Protong

Szukalski is now the subject of the critically acclaimed 2018 Netflix documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Extracts from the 39 volumes of my science “Zermatism,” based on new interpretations of petroglyphic communications, in which will be revealed the most precedent-shattering and up-turning of all notions on our origins. Including samplings from Anthropolitical Motivations, The Deluged Gods, and Listen to These Stones 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. For forty years, Szukalski had developed his all-encompassing science “Zermatism” about the origin of Man, laid down in 39 heavily illustrated volumes with subjects such as “Universal Pictography,” “The Flood Scumline,” and “Anthropolitical Motivations.” The work sets out to prove, among much else, that “Man-apes” make bad politicians, and that all Humanity stemmed from Easter Island, sharing a common protolanguage, “Protong” (bearing a striking resemblance to present-day Polish). Behold!!! The Protong, first published by Bray in 1980, was the first book in 50 years to bring Szukalski’s work to the light of the American public. It is a modest selection from the thousands of drawings in the Zermatism oeuvre. The Work of Szukalski (Covici-McGee, 1923) and Projects in Design (University of Chicago Press, 1929) showed the young Szukalski’s strength as artist-sculptor. This book combines those vitalities and steps beyond the accepted rules-for-artists in that it is divinely idiosyncratic and wholly unique.

Behold!!! The Protong: Extracts from the 39 volumes of my science “Zermatism”

A collection of Stanslav Szukalski's 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. Stanislav Szukalski (1893 1987) was an artist, anthropologist, and member of Chicago's artistic elite during the 1920s who spent his last years in obscurity. Today he is remembered for his political and scientific views and his brilliant sculptures. Highly regarded in both the US and Poland between the World Wars, he lapsed into obscurity, living and working “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 directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonard DiCaprio.

Early works of Polish sculptor Stanislav Szukalski, presented in a deluxe printed hardcover. The photos in this volume were printed from the original glass negatives taken by the artist between 1913 and 1930. This is the second edition of Stanislav Szukalski's The Lost Tune. The first edition was produced to complement the exhibit Szukalski: The Lost Genius, held between August 3 and October 22, 1990 at the Polish Museum of America in Chicago. With the addition of over a dozen photos, this new edition is a collection of prints of almost all of Szukalski's existing glass negatives. The negatives have been scanned in high resolution and meticulously reproduced and printed. This edition has a larger format than the first edition, and includes a comprehensive article on the historical and artistic merit of Szukalski's early photography.

The Lost Tune: Early Works (1913-1930) as Photographed by the Artist

Lost Tune

Archives Szukalski

This book represents a partial reprinting of the classics 1980 publication. It is but a small review of the science of Zermatism realized by Szukalski since 1940. The drawings herein were chosen from over 40,000 illustrations made for the Zermatism oeuvre, representing, in particular, some of the most important subjects as Universal Pictograph, the Flood Scumline and Anthropolitical Motivations. This is the first book in 50 years to bring Szukalski's work to the light of the American public.

Behold the Protong

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Struggle: The Art of Szukalski

Inner Portraits

Behold!!! the Protong

Behold!!! The Protong: Extracts from the 39 volumes of my science “Zermatism”

Inner Portraits

The Lost Tune: Early Works (1913-1930) as Photographed by the Artist

Lost Tune

Behold the Protong