Report of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana, on the Sanitary Condition of the Island of Jamaica: With Resolutions Adopted at a Meeting Hel, Salomon Lucien F.

Автор: Belinfante Judith C. E., Benesch Evelyn
Название: Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
ISBN: 3836570777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836570770
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Описание: Painting For Her Life
Charlotte Salomon's artistic feat under the Third Reich

When German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) handed her gouache series Life? or Theater? over to a friend, she beseeched him to "take good care of it, it is my entire life." A few months later, the five-months pregnant Charlotte was picked up by a Gestapo truck, deported to Drancy, and then on to Auschwitz, where she died upon arrival at the age 26.

Trauma haunts many of the pages, but there is defiance, too. Born of a family plagued by depression, the work Salomon left behind is, in a very real sense, her piece de resistance - in her own words, "something wildly eccentric." A cycle of nearly 1,300 autobiographical gouaches, it combines creative force with pioneering personal narrative into one shattering document of self-expression.

Divided into three sections, the gouaches unveil a vivid self-portrait spanning across all facets of Charlotte's existence: from a complicated family life, marked by the suicides of nearly all female relatives; growing up in Berlin; her close relation to singing teacher Alfred Wolfsohn; the rise of the Nazis; to her exile to France in 1939. Throughout, the artist challenges these destructive forces by deploying playful pseudonyms and fantastical elements alongside emotional candor, remarkable observation, and a meticulous visual memory. Her film strip-like sequences are interspersed not only with words but also musical suggestions, making Life? or Theater? the storybook for a whole musical, years before the heyday of that genre.

Without comparison, the gouaches are a triumph of personal truth and individual expression. Published here with a selection of the 450 most important pieces, Life? Or Theatre? is an unrivaled opus magnum from a great and ambitious artist, dark with her early death, but luminous with her precision, her lyricism, and her courage.

Автор: Salomon Lucien F.
Название: Report of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana, on the Sanitary Condition of the Island of Jamaica: With Resolutions Adopted at a Meeting Hel
ISBN: 1397324511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781397324511
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Описание: Excerpt from Report of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana, on the Sanitary Condition of the Island of Jamaica: With Resolutions Adopted at a Meeting Held Wednesday, April 1st, 1885

Gentlemen - Pursuant to a request of your honorable body I made a visit to the Island of Jamaica for the purpose of inquiring into its sanitary condition, with a view to the removal of quaran tine restrictions against said island, should the facts, after thor ough investigation, warrant such action on the part of this Board.

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Автор: Salomon Xavier, Tomezzoli Andrea, Ton Denis
Название: Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
ISBN: 1911300520 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911300526
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Описание: This catalogue brings together preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photographs, to commemorate an extraordinary fresco cycle by the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Painted for Palazzo Archinto in Milan, the frescoes were destroyed in a bombing during WWII. Accompanies an exhibition at The Frick Collection.