Reichardt, Jasia
Entry updated 18 August 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1933- ) Polish-born journalist, editor, exhibition curator and author, in UK from 1942, having escaped from the Polish ghetto with the aid of a relative, Franciszka Themerson; Reichardt later edited much work for Gaberbocchus Press (see Stefan Themerson) and elsewhere. Of the several exhibitions she has mounted, Cybernetic Serendipity (London: ICA, 1968-1969) (see Cybernetics) was perhaps most directly relevant in terms of this encyclopedia. She is also of interest for the nonfiction Robots: Fact, Fiction and Prediction (London: Thames and Hudson, 1978), which combines an alert awareness to literary history, along with an inclination to see the subject of Robots in surreal terms: a double focus that shows marks of the British New Wave, seemingly influenced in this by the vivid presence of Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) in the book. [JC]
Jasia Reichardt
born Warsaw, Poland: 13 November 1933
works (highly selected)
- Robots: Fact, Fiction and Prediction (London: Thames and Hudson, 1978) [nonfiction: pb/Peter Tybus]
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