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Michael P. Steinberg (Ed.) - Reading Charlotte Salomon - 9780801439711 - V9780801439711
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Reading Charlotte Salomon

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Description for Reading Charlotte Salomon Hardback. Editor(s): Steinberg, Michael P.; Bohm-Duchen, Monica. Num Pages: 248 pages, 47. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 186 x 257 x 23. Weight in Grams: 772.

Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 and was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of twenty-six. While in exile in the south of France from 1940 until her deportation in 1943, she created some 1,325 small gouaches using only the three primary colors plus white. From these she gathered nearly 800 into a work that she titled Life? or Theater?: A Play with Music, which employs images, texts, and musical and cinematic references. The narrative, informed by Salomon's experiences as a talented, cultured, and assimilated German Jew, depicts a life lived in the shadow of Nazi persecution and ... Read more

Salomon's art, discovered after the war in the south of France where she had left it for safekeeping, was first exhibited in 1961 and has gained steadily in reputation since then. A major exhibition focused on Life? or Theater? appeared at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1998, subsequently at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Jewish Museum in New York City. This book, lavishly illustrated with many color plates, is the first to analyze Salomon's work critically, historically, and aesthetically. It includes a chronology of Salomon's life and a list of exhibitions of Life? or Theater?. Featuring contributions from prominent art historians, literary and cultural critics, and historians, Reading Charlotte Salomon celebrates the genius and courage of a remarkable figure in twentieth-century art.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
779g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801439711
SKU
V9780801439711
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Ref
99-1

About Michael P. Steinberg (Ed.)
Michael P. Steinberg is Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities and Professor of History and Music at Brown University. He is the author of Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival; Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History (both from Cornell); and Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music. Monica Bohm-Duchen is an ... Read more

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