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Mieczysław Porębski (31 March 1921 – 10 September 2012) was an art historian, critic and theorist.^[1]

In 1938 he started to study art history at the Jagiellonian University.^[2] His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the World War II.^[2] During the Nazi occupation, he attended the School of Artistic Crafts^[2] (Kunstgewerbeschule)^[3] and collaborated with Tadeusz Kantor's underground theatre.^[4] In 1944, he was arrested for underground activities.^[4] He was imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.^[4]

From 1950 to 1969 he was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.^[1] From 1952 to 1957 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Przegląd Artystyczny [pl].^[2] From 1970 he was a professor at the Jagiellonian University.^[4] From 1974 he was a curator at the National Museum in Kraków.^[1] In 1990 he was elected a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1] Tadeusz Różewicz dedicated to him the poem Nożyk profesora (2001).^[3]

• Sztuka naszego czasu: zbiór szkiców i artykułów krytycznych z lat 1945–1955. Warszawa. 1956.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Malowane dzieje. Warszawa. 1961.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Interregnum: studia z historii sztuki polskiej XIX i XX wieku. Warszawa. 1975.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Granica współczesności: ze studiów nad kształtowaniem się poglądów artystycznych XX wieku. Wrocław. 1965.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Pożegnanie z krytyką. Kraków. 1966.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Kubizm: wprowadzenie do sztuki XX wieku. Omega. Warszawa. 1966.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ikonosfera. Warszawa. 1972.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Sztuka a informacja. Kraków, Wrocław. 1975.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

• Gold Cross of Merit (22 July 1952)^[5]
• Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (19 January 1955)^[6]
• International critics' prize at the Venice Biennale (1956)^[2]
• Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1991)^[7]
• Kazimierz Wyka Award (1995)^[8]
• Gold Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture (2011)^[4]

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• Poprzęcka, Maria (2013). "Mieczysław Porębski (31 III 1921–10 IX 2012)" (PDF). Rocznik Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności: 247–251. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2024.
• "Bibliografia prac Mieczysława Porębskiego" (PDF). d1uip03pwa14dd.cloudfront.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2026.