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The exhibition brings together 126 masterful prints dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries which will be juxtaposed with the 20th and 21st century works of art. Contemporary art will serve as a spatial counterpoint to the two-dimensional prints. Arranged thematically, the works featured at the exhibition will offer an overview of the roles assigned to women by modern art and will be further contrasted with contemporary attempts at expressing the female element in the realm of aesthetics. Using different modes of representation, i.e. realistic as well as symbolic and allegoric, the exhibition '96; whose title points to an English proverb which is particularly popular in the USA '96; features artistic visions and images of a variety of women's jobs, household tasks and activities. It is indeed worth addressing the subject through the eyes of the old and current masters, since, as put in the exhibition catalogue, "a woman's work is inconspicuous, unnameable, and supporting". Among the prints featured at the exhibition one will find the masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, William Hogarth, as well as a number of works by representatives of the Italian, French and Dutch schools. The presentation will be rounded out by rare works by female printmakers. This is the 9th exhibition of prints jointly organised by the ICC and the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow.