Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide
by
Darcy Buerkle
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Charlotte Salomon's (1917-43) fantastical autobiography, Life? or Theater?, consists of 769 sequenced gouache paintings, through which the artist imagined the circumstances of the eight suicides in her family, all but one of them women. But Salomon's focus on suicide was not merely a familial idiosyncrasy....