Tobiasse - Artist in Exile

Összefoglaló

An unusual and beautiful monograph combines the works of an internationally known contemporary French artist — Theo Tobiasse — with the writing of a world famous best-selling author — Chaim Potok. Brought to Paris from Israel as a child, Tobiasse was educated and did his first drawing before World War II. His Jewish family's survival through two terrifying years spent hidden from the Nazis in a Paris apartment is part of the extraordinary text which Potok has so sensitively crafted. In the post-war period Tobiasse developed skills as a successful commercial artist which he ultimately abandoned for an exclusive devotion to painting. Since 1961 Tobiasse has had an increasing recognition and popularity as far afield as New York, Paris, Caracas, Tel Aviv and Tokyo in all of which he has had one man shows. Over 300 of his works are here illustrated, mostly in color.
A sentimental and private individual, Tobiasse puts his innermost feelings into almost all his works and his little "secret," entrusted only to his paintings: a personal message which he writes in Yiddish and then glues onto the canvas before painting or collaging over it. No one will ever know the message without destroying the painting itself.
CHAIM POTOK is widely known for his six previous books — each a notable success —of contemporary Jewish life in America: "The Chosen", "The Promise", "My Name is Asher Lev", "In the Beginning", "The Book of Lights" and "Davita's Harp". He is also the author of "Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews". He was trained and ordained as a rabbi, served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Korea, and was for many years editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society of America. He and his wife and their three children live in Pennsylvania.
323 illustrations, including 202 in color.