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The series of films begins with documentation of prisoner of war camps in World War II, when the YMCA distributed 21,000 blank log books for prisoners to record images and thoughts. The next clip focuses on Terezin, a concentration camp that housed Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, an art teacher who helped children to remember the beauty of a world no longer accessible to them. In a cameo appearance, noted pioneer art therapist Edith Kramer states that Friedl was her teacher, and perished at Auschwitz. The adult artists in Terezin, who were made to illustrate propaganda for reports to Germans, also made art about the real truth of Terezin, knowing that if these drawings were found they were would be killed.Clips featuring Simon Wiesenthal and Charlotte Salomon note the urgency to document and witness the traumatic events as they unfolded. Memories from Hiroshima are drawn by survivors who are compelled to tell their stories visually.
A large number of artists emerged from the War in Vietnam as veterans and used art as an emotional language for exorcism of intense feelings. Many of these individuals were reluctant to show their work, but have been persuaded to exhibit at the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. The final film, Children the Crossfire, documents toy photographer Brian McCarty’s work with children caught in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Clips featuring Simon Wiesenthal and Charlotte Salomon note the urgency to document and witness the traumatic events as they unfolded. Memories from Hiroshima are drawn by survivors who are compelled to tell their stories visually.
A large number of artists emerged from the War in Vietnam as veterans and used art as an emotional language for exorcism of intense feelings. Many of these individuals were reluctant to show their work, but have been persuaded to exhibit at the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. The final film, Children the Crossfire, documents toy photographer Brian McCarty’s work with children caught in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.
Length of video: 1:06:56
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-626-9
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-626-4
Judith Rubin, a pioneer in the field of art therapy, is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist and a Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Rubin is the author of five books, including: Child Art Therapy, The Art of Art Therapy, and Art Therapy: An Introduction. She was the "Art Lady" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in the 1960s.
A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, Dr. Rubin is retired from full-time clinical practice, and is devoting her energies to creating and disseminating films on the arts in therapy through a nonprofit organization, Expressive Media, Inc. Her other films include Beyond Words: Art Therapy with Older Adults (2004), We'll Show You What We're Gonna Do! (art with blind children, 1971), Children & the Arts (all of the arts with children, 1973), and The Green Creature Within (group art-drama therapy with adolescents, 1984). More about Judith Rubin's films and the organization can be found at http://www.expressivemedia.org.