Shared Experience: Captivity
Art and War
Captivity attempts to measure, and to reflect upon, the constraints and the demands placed on people, both at the time and then through the slow years of healing. Civilian men, women and children were forced into internment camps in occupied countries for the duration of the war. Prisoners of war endured unimaginable physical deprivation and psychological damage. At the same time, in the concentration camps Jewish men, women, and children suffered horrors that the artists later witnessed and attempted to record.
British Prisoners of War, Italy
Paul Bullard
Blind man in Belsen
Alan Moore
Murray Griffin
Bodies in a Grave, Belsen
Alex Colville
Human Laundry, Belsen: April 1945
Doris Zinkeisen
Edward Bawden
Yes Sir
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack