The Prisoner

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Images such as this provided contemporary audiences with rare visual insight into the lives of prisoners and forced laborers within the French penal system.

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

In the late 19th century the majority of carpet weaving took place within the jails with the long-term prisoners being used for this activity. The carpet has been given a soft wash t...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

He studied in Paris in the 1930s and then returned to Belgium to work with his mother. Taken prisoner during the war, he opened his own fashion house in 1951 in Paris with Germaine d...

Select Group Exhibitions Exhibition of modern Catalan art for the benefit of prisoners, deportees and other social works of Catalan solidarity , Altarriba Gallery, 43 Rue du Bac in...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

After months of encirclement and severe shortages, the fortress finally surrendered to Russian forces in March 1915, with approximately 120,000 soldiers and officers taken prisoner. ...

This photograph was later reproduced in Herbert Read’s A Concise History of Modern Sculpture (Thames & Hudson, 1964) and was also used in 1963 in connection with the Tate Gallery’s l...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

The entire scene is constructed as a succession of tragic episodes: beheadings, bodies being dragged, pleading women, murdered children, soldiers taking their revenge on prisoners. ...

Among his most famous engravings are: • Sharpshooter on Picket Duty (1862) • Prisoners from the Front (1866, later developed into a painting) • The Army of the Potomac—A Sharp-Shoo...

Among his works, we can cite The Eternal Prisoner (1949), Portrait of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1956), The Woman with the Suns, The Lovers (1963), Death (1963), The Sleeping Beauty (196...

Among his works, we can cite The Eternal Prisoner (1949), Portrait of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1956), The Woman with the Suns, The Lovers (1963), Death (1963), The Sleeping Beauty (196...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

In 1952 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale and in the same year won a much publicized competition for a Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner which, however, was never made. Af...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Their most infamous use was taking prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution.

During World War I he was imprisoned by the Russians and stayed in the camp for prisoners of war in Siberia where he became acquainted with David Burliuk and other Russian futurists.

After winning the 'Unknown Political Prisoner' competition in 1953 he became one of the best known sculptors during the 1950s and 1960s, and also taught at the Slade School of Art.

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

A memorial of the death march of Jewish prisoners (and subsequent murders at Palmnicken) was erected in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) in 2011.

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

This photograph was later reproduced in Herbert Read’s A Concise History of Modern Sculpture (Thames & Hudson, 1964) and was also used in 1963 in connection with the Tate Gallery...

Wounded, he was taken prisoner. Sent to the rear, he escaped. Via the Dutch route, he reached England , then France , and finally found himself at the front in that tiny corner of Be...

Armed guards stand behind him while he beats a prisoner. The caption below reads: “У нас найдётся вам работа: мои ребята — дилетанты.”

A memorial of the death march of Jewish prisoners (and subsequent murders at Palmnicken) was erected in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) in 2011.

Originating in the thirteenth century Japan, the artistic form of Japanese rope bondage has many different interpretations of it’s history, while most of the art form comes from the ...

A manifesto in visual form, this poster echoes the global struggle for racial justice — calling out the names of key Black Panther Party figures: Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Pant...

Among his works, we can cite The Eternal Prisoner (1949), Portrait of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1956), The Woman with the Suns, The Lovers (1963), Death (1963), The Sleeping Beauty (196...

He studied in Paris in the 1930s and then returned to Belgium to work with his mother. Taken prisoner during the war, he opened his own fashion house in 1951 in Paris with Germaine d...

When she was in Budapest she learned by chance that her first husband had not been killed in the war, but had fallen prisoner and had returned to Hungary after a number of years.

The caption of the sketch 'Camp Northampton' reveals it to be, however, a depiction of one of the seven Prisoner of War camps in Northamptonshire. These camps primarily housed German...

These details all come from dubious sources written by the notorious Latude, a prisoner with numerous escapes who wrote his memoirs.

Atilius Regulus was a Roman statesman taken prisoner during the first Punic War between Rome and Carthage.

When World War II broke out, he became a liaison officer for a British regiment. He was taken prisoner at Dunkirk and sent to Camp Oflag IV-D near Dresden.

Diaghilev managed to get Nijinsky out of the country thanks to the intervention of Alfonso XIII and his Oficina Pro Cautivos (Office for the Protection of Prisoners). The signature i...

Usually depicted as an abbot holding chains, fetters or locks, or manacles and is the Patron Saint of political prisoners, imprisoned people, prisoners of war, and captives, women in...

During World War II, he was imprisoned by the Japanese, surviving both the bombing of Nagasaki and the sinking of a prisoner transport ship. After the war, he resettled in the Nether...

After World War II, the doctor was called upon by the government to examine returning prisoners of war for their state of health. This correspondence by letters was found behind the ...

He has the distinction of being primariy self taught before the war years of 1914-1918 during which he was taken prisoner by the Germans and interned in Switzerland.

His adoption of the term Art Brut or raw art, referred to the art of children, prisoners, and the mentally ill, was a reaction to what he called art culturel or refined art.

Antique box for jewels or treasures, hand inlaid with straw threads, built by prisoners of the time as work for integration and financing, built in Italy, 19th century.

This theme culminated in the 1960s in his Prisoner of War and Concentration Camp Victim memorial in Gladstone Park in London.

Hamilton, known for his politically charged works, created this piece as a commentary on the conditions faced by the Irish Republican prisoners who protested against the British gove...

He studied in Paris in the 1930s, then returned to Belgium to work with his mother. Taken prisoner during the war, he opened his own fashion house in Paris in 1951 with Germaine de V...

Look into the eyes of the Homeless man Tell me what you see In the eyes of a jobless man Tell me what you see What about the eyes Of a prisoner What do you see Now you've seen it all...

He survived the sinking of a prisoner transport ship and later witnessed the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, experiences that left an indelible mark on his outlook.

He survived two near-death experiences that few could imagine: first, when the Japanese transport ship carrying prisoners was torpedoed and sunk; and later, while interned near Nagas...

It shows the two noblemen being paraded as prisoners through the city gate in a grand procession of soldiers, banners, and drummers.