ISBN: 8563681028 9788563681027

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Page count: 154

"Visions of War 1940-1943" contains a series of 75 watercolors, gouache, pen and ink drawings created by Lasar Segall (b. 1861, lived and worked in Brazil since 1913) between 1940 and 1943 origianly elaborated for a book never published, as well as related works (paintings, drawings, sketches) and documents (newspaper clippings and photos) from that time that depict the historical moment in which Segall drew up his sketchbooks. The outcome is a visual narrative with an almost cinematographic sequence of dramatic and somber images of Segall's memories of World War I, which he had witnessed at close quarters. Lasar Sagall came from a traditional Jewish family in Vilna where he was born. He experienced the Grand War and became a painter in the expressionist movement in Germany. In 1940 novelist and pacifist Stefan Zweig asked the artist if he "could graphically evoke a vision of the pogrom "showing all the wretchedness of today's refugees by ship and train, on highways and roads". Segall remarks on the coincidence of being at work on precisely the same subject." --Page 147.