Allen C. Topolski considers himself the foremost expert on himself and the most qualified person for the task of distilling the ideas inside his head; Topolski attended Bucknell University and Penn State where he learned several\u00a0ways of doing this. He has been a Professor at the URochester for over twenty years where he attempts to teach others their own ways.<\/p>\n
Abandoned collieries and vacated factories of central Pennsylvania formed part of the environment of Topolski\u2019s youth – \u00a0explorations there are unequivocally linked to his art\u00a0production. Augmented\u00a0by the exaggeration and distortion that\u00a0accompanies memory, the routine\u00a0reiterations of the ‘fact’ that “those days\u201d were better than\u00a0“these” results in an ingrained longing for the past and an\u00a0unwilling\u00a0acceptance of the present as well as the inevitable. This, in turn, fosters\u00a0a disconcerting susceptibility to nostalgia and Topolski finds himself coveting the decayed, feigning the familiar and writing about himself in the third person.<\/p>\n
Brief Statement<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 CV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Allen C. Topolski considers himself the foremost expert on himself and the most qualified person…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":5576,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11406","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33622,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11406\/revisions\/33622"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}