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Life? or Theatre? : a selection of 450 gouaches / Charlotte Salomon ; essays by Judith C.E. Belinfante and Evelyn Benesch ; editing, Alix Sharma-Weigold and Bhesham Sharma ; translation, Elizabeth Clegg (essays and appendix), Leila Vennewitz (texts of 'Life? or Theatre?').

Contributor(s): Sharma-Weigold, Alix | Sharma, Bhesham R, 1961- | Clegg, Elizabeth | Vennewitz, LeilaMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch, German Publication details: Kln : Taschen, 2017. Description: 599 p. : ill., portraits, fascimilies ; 25 cmISBN: 3836570777 (hardback); 9783836570770 (hardback)Other title: Life? or theater?Uniform titles: Leben? oder Theater?. English. Selections. Contained works: Salomon, Charlotte, 1917-1943. Works. Selections | Belinfante, Judith C. E. What is 'Life? or Theatre?'? | Benesch, Evelyn. 'Life? or Theatre?' as a mirror of art and culture in Berlin in the 1920s and early 1930sSubject(s): Salomon, Charlotte, 1917-1943 -- Criticism and interpretation | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Artists -- Germany -- BiographyLOC classification: ND1954.S24 | A4 2017Summary: 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.
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In English; the essays and appendix are translated from Dutch and the texts of 'Life? or Theatre?' from German.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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