Arte e memoria. La testimonianza artistica della deportazione

Abstract

This paper proposes a comparative analysis between the different theses of deported artists (some of whom survived) who managed to produce drawings during their detention in the Nazi’s camps. Some of them said they drew for an artistic, rather than a testimonial need. The comparison between two of these arguments will lead us to question aesthetics categories and status of these graphic testimonies of one of the best known events in human history.