oha 2016

Robert Desnos

Art: 2016
Media: Linocut print. Two versions, black& white; and color
Size: Block (image) size (on larger paper): 9.5 x 12 inches

Some proofs are signed on the bottom of vertical image; others on bottom of a horizontally placed image. Each proof is titled, in pencil, with an excerpt from a Desnos poem.

Robert Desnos, was a French surrealist poet; author of thousands of radio commercials; and a book, music and art critic, 1900 – 1945. His family background was Jewish.
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Desnos was a French surrealist poet; art, literature, music critic; and author of thousands of radio commercials known throughout wide areas of pre-WWII Europe. Born in 1900, he was murdered by the Nazis at the Terezin concentration-death camp in Czechoslovakia. Barely alive at liberation, he succumbed to the effects of starvation, high fever and typhus.

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Book references include
The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos (pub. by Echo Press, NY, 1991).

Translators: Carolyn Forché and William Kulik;  introduction by Kulik.

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The Last Album - Eyes from the ashes of Auschwitz (pub, by Norton, 2001). Edited by Ann Weiss.

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Also see: Under the Wings 51: Sorrows of Love

Collections

• Cardiff University, School of Modern Languages, Wales, UK

• Nottingham Liberal synagogue, England, UK