by Cognet, Richard, Wieviorka
Boris Taslitzky, drawings made at Buchenwald (book)
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Boris Taslitzky, drawings made at Buchenwald (book) by Christophe Cognet, Lionel Richard, Annette Wieviorka. Preface by Julien Cain and Jorge Semprun. Hardcover book of 251 pages. 2009. Publisher Biro & Cohen. Very good condition except for some marks on the cover.
Boris Taslitzky (1911-2005), French painter, was born to Russian Jewish parents who had taken refuge in France after the pogrom of 1905. At the age of seventeen he entered the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
In 1945 Louis Aragon took the initiative to publish one hundred and eleven drawings and watercolors made by Boris Taslitzky at Buchenwald. He thus paid the tribute he was due to the artist whose courage and talent had filled the absence of an international generation struck to the last degree of persecution in the Nazi concentration camps. The collection of these clandestine works, all made on site, delivered the daily, unpublished account of an internal experience of resistance and life in the camps.
Taslitzky’s genius, as Malraux wrote of Goya, “is not to have broken with the will for harmony, and annexed horror: it is to have responded to the irremediable with artistic creation”. This new edition, completed by all the drawings and watercolors – nearly two hundred – made by Boris Taslitzky at Buchenwald and augmented by testimonies and studies by personalities who knew the painter, historians and art historians, traces the genesis and transmission of these works, and shows for the first time the complete journey of an experience of which they bear the indelible imprint.
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