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BLATTER, JANET AND MILTON, SYBIL. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION BY HENRY FRIEDLANDER. PREFACE BY IRVING HOWE.

Art of the Holocaust.

Rutledge, New York, 1981.. 272 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0831704187 Over 350 b&w and colour reproductions. "Throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich, an indomitable group of artists risked their lives to record the crimes of the Nazi regime and the agony of its victims. Working in ghettos, transit camps, in hiding and in concentration camps, they have left behind a body of material that documents their hope, humanity and creative spirit as well as their suffering - witness to th e f a c t that while many of them perished, they also lived and created. This highly varied body of work ranges from gentle watercolor landscapes and sketches that could have been done at any time and place to anguished scenes of torture, from bit te r s at ir ical drawings that helped the victims vent their anger and lessen their pain, to grim pictures that force us to remember it. The artist worked in various media - watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen and ink, wood, pencil. They worked on wha te ver ma ter ials were available - the finest canvas, artist's paper or the backs of work orders and scraps rescued from trash barrels. They created in compliance with Nazi orders as well as clandestinely, at great risk to their lives. The m ore tha n 30 ,000 wor ks that survive represent hundreds of artists." One small and one tiny corner bump, tiny dint on bottom edge of rear board, small ink stain on top of text block. Dust jacket has been price-clipped, has wrinkling at top/botto m of spi ne, s ome a reas of light edge wrinkling. Very Good/Very Good.

-- Capricorn Books

Book number: 24201

USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 32 | £UK 25.75 | JP¥ 3178]

Catalogue: Art - General

Keywords: Jewish, Jews, World War Ii, Second, Ghettos, Transit Camps, Prisons, Pow, Concentration, Buchenwald, Ravensbruck, Mauthausen, Dachau, Auschwitz, Dora, Bergen-Belsen, Bialystok, Kovno, Nisko, Warsaw, Lodz, Theresienstadt, Hinzert, Waldheim, Flossenbu