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Linney Wix - Through a Narrow Window: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her Terezin Students - 9780826348272 - V9780826348272
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Through a Narrow Window: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her Terezin Students

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Description for Through a Narrow Window: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her Terezin Students Hardback. Num Pages: 147 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AGB; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 261 x 22. Weight in Grams: 975.

Not long after the end of World War II, two suitcases from Terezin, the socalled model ghetto designed by the Nazi propaganda machine to showcase creative endeavors, were delivered to members of what remained of the Jewish community of Prague. The contents of the suitcases included children's drawings, paintings, and collages made at Terezin. Rediscovered in the 1950s, the pictures, by then housed at the Jewish Museum in Prague, were exhibited, and over time some were published. Friedl Dicker-Brandeis was the remarkable woman who taught art to many of Terezin's children before she was killed at Auschwitz. While she has ... Read more

This book and the accompanying exhibition offer a closer look at the methods and philosophy of Dicker-Brandeis's teaching, the history behind it, and its possible psychological effects on the children interned at Terezin. Besides discussing aesthetic empathy as the basis of her teaching philosophy and practice, the book includes biographical and art historical information on Dicker-Brandeis, who trained at the Weimar Bauhaus, and restores her to her rightful place as an artist, teacher, and heroine behind Nazi lines in the Second World War.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826348272
SKU
V9780826348272
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Ref
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About Linney Wix
Linney Wix is associate professor in the art education program at the University of New Mexico

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