| Imprisoned: Drawings from Nazi Concentration Camps Contributor(s): Benvenuti, Arturo (Compiled by), Levi, Primo (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1510706666 ISBN-13: 9781510706668 Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing OUR PRICE: $26.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - History | Holocaust - History | Jewish - General |
| Dewey: 704.949 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 7.6" W x 10.3" (2.85 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey. His plan--his own Viae Crucis--was to meet with as many former prisoners of Nazi-fascist concentration camps as he could. He wanted not only to learn their stories, but to learn from their stories. He met with dozens of survivors from Auschwitz, Terez n, Mauthausen-Gusen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Gonars, Monigo, Renicci, Banjica, Ravensbr ck, Jasenovac, Belsen, and Gurs. Many of these men and women shared their memories with Benvenuti along with artwork they'd created during their internment with pencil, ink, and charcoal. After four decades of research, Benvenuti presented these original black-and-white pieces in Imprisoned. This stunning collection provides visuals that oftentimes even the most eloquent words and sentences cannot convey. In his foreword, chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi highlighted the importance of these reproductions, stating, "some have the immediate power of art; all have the raw power of the eye that has seen and that transmits its indignation." |