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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20191025
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20200621
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/victoria-gallery-museum-the-secr
 et-art-of-survival/
SUMMARY:Victoria Gallery & Museum: Victoria Gallery & Museum: The Secret Ar
 t of Survival
DESCRIPTION:Hidden artworks by British Far East POW 1942-1945\n\nThe result
  of over six years’ research to identify and locate previously unseen a
 rtworks created secretly and kept hidden by British servicemen during WWII
  Far East captivity. To date over 40 artists have been identified\; the ex
 hibition\, in partnership with the Victoria Gallery &amp\; Museum\, will 
 bring together their work for the first time.\n\nWhere: Victoria Gallery 
 &amp\; Museum\, Liverpool\nOpening: Saturday 19 October 2019\n\nAbout the
  Project\n\nThe FEPOW study is the longest-running project in LSTM's histo
 ry.  From late 1945 until the late 1990s the emphasis was on the healthca
 re\, diagnosing and treating tropical infections and the effects of prolon
 ged gross malnutrition. Since 1999\, the focus has shifted to recording th
 is unique medical history.\n\nWhilst conducting a major FEPOW oral history
  study from 2007 to 2009\, researchers became aware of a growing number of
  previously unseen and unknown artworks\, created secretly and hidden duri
 ng captivity by numerous amateur artists\; much of it remained hidden long
  after liberation\, until now. Treasured by the veterans and now their fam
 ilies\, this "documentary art" illustrates many aspects of captivity from 
 everyday life\, disease\, medical ingenuity\, the beauty of their surround
 ings to faith\, humour and survival.\n\nThe Artwork\n\nArt became the lens
  through which the artists illuminated the nightmare of disease and death 
 in his midst. There was no other way of recording the neglect - no reporte
 rs or Red Cross delegations - just artists who recorded precisely what the
 y wanted the viewer to see. And done at great risk.\n\nThis art created hu
 rriedly against captors' orders\, had to be kept hidden. Over 70 years on\
 , it gives unique insights into the monumental struggle to survive\, both 
 physically and mentally\, and represents countless and repeated acts of co
 urage.  Artistic styles include depictions of the ravages of tropical inf
 ections\, portraiture\, landscape\, ingenuity\, cartoons and caricatures\,
  theatrical posters\, stage sets\, and wildlife studies.
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LOCATION:Victoria Gallery & Museum\, Ashton Street\, University of Liverpoo
 l\, Liverpool\, L69 3DR\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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