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?').

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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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Leben oder Theater. Selections. English
Other Authors: Salomon, Charlotte, 1917-1943 (Artist)
Belinfante, Judith C. E.
Benesch, Evelyn
Sharma-Weigold, Alix (Editor)
Sharma, Bhesham R., 1961- (Editor)
Clegg, Elizabeth (Translator)
Vennewitz, Leila (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Dutch
German
Language and/or Writing System:
In English; the essays and appendix are translated from Dutch and the texts of 'Life? or Theatre?' from German.
Published: Köln : Taschen, [2017]
Subjects:
Salomon, Charlotte, > 1917-1943 > Criticism and interpretation.
Salomon, Charlotte, > 1917-1943.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Artists > Biography.
Holocaust, 1933-1945.
Artists.
1939-1945
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:599 pages : colored illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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