Word: salomon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLOTTE by Charlotte Salomon. 80 color plates. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Hopeless Desert. Charlotte Salomon wrote those words when she was 25, and though she assigned them to her grandmother, they were her words. Each of the 80 paintings in her diary of despair echoes them-first with innocent uncertainty, then with primitive clarity, finally with resignation. Older than Anne Frank but, like her, a German, a Jew, and doomed to die, she recounts her life as a string of fatal instants that flash past like dagger thrusts...