I have drawn pictures of the war, The Eye of Françoise and Alfred Brauner retraces the history of contemporary conflicts thanks to children's drawings which give us a moving testimony of these wars. A specific interest for children's drawings in wartime really arose during the Spanish war (1936-1939), when Françoise and Alfred Brauner, involved in the International Brigades, experienced the value of the graphic mode of expression, its reconstructive function, its cathartic faculty. Throughout their lives, they gathered children's drawings in wartime and brougth out what they tell us of children's life in times of war, helping us to understand it. To the Spanish drawings were added those from concentration camps, from Japan, Vietnam, Algeria, Lebanon, Cambodia, El Salvad ...
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Foreword (Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General) Introduction (Rose Duroux and Catherine Milkovitch-Rioux)
I. 1900 - 1939 The Second Boer War The First world war Persecutions in Nazi Germany The Spanish Civil War
II. 1939-1945 1938: Invasion of the Czechoslovakia The Second World War Invasion of Poland Children in camps The A-bomb
III. 1945 - 2001 The Algerian War The Civil war in Guatemala The Vietnam War The Cambodian War The Western Sahara War The Israeli-Palistinian Conflict The War in Lebanon The War in Afghanistan The Civil war in El Salvador The War in former Yugoslavia The War in Kosovo First War in Chechnya
Epilogue The Rights of the Child
Afterword Selective bibliography Table of drawings Table of illustrations and photo credits
I have drawn pictures of the war, The Eye of Françoise and Alfred Brauner retraces the history of contemporary conflicts thanks to children's drawings which give us a moving testimony of these wars. A specific interest for children's drawings in wartime really arose during the Spanish war (1936-1939), when Françoise and Alfred Brauner, involved in the International Brigades, experienced the value of the graphic mode of expression, its reconstructive function, its cathartic faculty. Throughout their lives, they gathered children's drawings in wartime and brougth out what they tell us of children's life in times of war, helping us to understand it. To the Spanish drawings were added those from concentration camps, from Japan, Vietnam, Algeria, Lebanon, Cambodia, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya...This book will enable all readers to consider contemporary wars from an exceptional point of view – a child's point of view. It is meant more particularly for primary and secondary school teachers who would like to talk about war in class. It is not aimed directly at children – some drawings and their captions are very violent and may upset young children. But they must also spark debates and analyses by bringing to the fore the way children apprehend conflicts. And that's what a journey through the Brauner collection has to offer: a feeling of rediscovering what children say about the war, of hearing paper voices.