The book Politics of Erasure From sDamnatio Memoriae to Alluring Void on the one hand deals with the strategies of widely understood erasure in visual arts ie exclusion annulment and depreciation in terms of particular works of art museum narrations or urban spaces on the other hand it attempts to look at the ways of writing history because here the required and necessary virtue of synthesis sometimes transforms into an injurious scheme Thus oscillation between the general consciousness of the method and its precise use within case studies becomes not only a presentation of significant works of the Polish art of the 20th century showed in the general European context but also a reflection on the craft of the historian its limitations and possibilities The spolitics of erasure in the title does not link only with the ruthless power struggle hostile to any signs of resistance it can also be a strategy aiming at widening our perception or negotiating what is visible and real In this last case it does not reconcile itself to the terror of the visible and becomes a persevering attempt to expand the range of imagination and activate memory and intuition