DAVKA 1973/5733 Thirty Years After The World Vanished
Los Angeles: Davka, 1973. First printing. Loose leaf. 1/500. Small Oblong Folio. [4]pp., 12 plates. original black stiff wraps portfolio with white lettering on sealing label of portfolio. With an introduction summarizing history, meaning and longevity of the Shtetl beyond the attempt to eradicate the Jewish world during the Nazi era.
"It was a traditional world coming in contact with new intellectual, scientific, cultural, and political ideas, and the turbulence of this contact caused many shock waves in the shtetl and made it exciting and dynamic. It rose above the limitations imposed upon it and produced giants in every aspect of science and culture... This portfolio of graphics depicts aspects of the life of Eastern European Jews in the Shtetl. It simultaneously presents some of the creative activities of artists who rose from the shtetl and offers glimpses into the daily existence... The portfolio is presented at this time to commemorate thirty years since the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto..." (Nathan Hurvitz)
Contains twelve high-quality offset reproductions of drawings (4 x 5.5"), with tissue guard belly band, by Boris Deutsch, Ilya Schor, S. Yudowin, Joseph Budko, David Bekkor, E. M. Lilien, Hermann Struck, David Labcovski, Jakob Steinhardt, Todros Geller, Julius Turner, and William Gropper. Portfolio with some light wear along edges and paper seal broken. Art in fine condition. Good to fine condition. Item #54202
Price: $450.00