The adaptation of the former Jewish Zucker House of Prayer as a gallery of contemporary art is a unique phenomenon due to both the complicated history of the heritage building itself and the unique personality of the current owner. Andrzej Starmach, an art dealer and collector in one, has gathered an extraordinary collection of contemporary Polish art, managing to stay ahead of popular trends. For many years, the Starmach Gallery was a lone beacon of culture in the run-down Podgórze district, which is now flourishing, becoming a location of numerous museums. Through their recent donation of their outstanding collection of Polish contemporary art – built up over a period of many years – to the city of Kraków, Andrzej and Teresa Starmach have left their mark on the history of Polish art collecting.
Isolation resulting from imprisonment disrupts the way of human natural functioning. It also leads to deprivation of natural human needs which forces the convicts to adapt to new living conditions. Strategies of adaptation among imprisoned women are characterized by kind of intimacy between the inmates and concentration on feelings. Homosexual erotic relationships are very important part of imprisoned women’s social and emotional life though they rarely depend on actual sexual orientation. In the case of imprisoned women, entering into intimate relationships with other inmates is mostly result of the desire to survive, social or emotional factors but also materialistic motives or subculture influence. It has been observed that imprisoned women have tendencies to recreate in prison some relationship patterns to those which occur on freedom and also to engage into emotional and partner relationship. These observations create possibilities for therapeutic and resocialization influence based not only on education process but also on appealing to prisoner’s inner world of feelings and experience.
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