(1993) Commander Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1998) Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, Berlin, Germany (1999) Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France (1999) Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, Norway (1999) Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000) Visionaries! Award granted by American Craft Museum (2000) Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center, (Hamilton, NJ, USA) (2005) Germany's Star of the Grand Cross for Service to Germany (2010) Doctorates and honors Honoris Causa doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, England (1974) Honoris Causa doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (1992) Honorary member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin (1994) Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City (1996) Honorary member of the Sachsische Akademie der Kunste, Dresden, Germany (1998) Honoris Causa doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland (1998) Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Pratt Institute, New York (2000) Honoris Causa doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts (2001) Honoris Causa doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland (2002) Honoris Causa doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (2002) Quotes "I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm." "Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind." See also Abakanowicz List of Polish artists Socialist realism Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil Agora Fiber art References Notes Bibliography Reichardt, Jasia. Magdalena Abakanowicz. New York: Abbeville Press, 1982. 188 pp. 152 color and BW illus. Abakanowicz, Magdalena, et al. Magdalena Abakanowicz. Davidson College, 2010. Inglot, Joanna. The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, and Myths. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Miller, Nancy, et