The Prisoner

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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. Colors: Merlot, aqua, beige.

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.

In November 1914, he is taken prisoner by the Germans and interned at the Salzwedel POW camp.

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

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...

He endured years of forced labor, survived the sinking of a prisoner transport ship after it was torpedoed, and later survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki — experiences that profo...

Since there were no precepts for civilian prisoners, these European Jews were treated worse than their captured German oppressors.

Roberto Estopiñán (1921–2015) was a Cuban American sculptor known for his sculptures of the human form, including political prisoners. Born in Camaguey, Cuba, he lived in the United ...

Instead, the British government decided to take its most important prisoner to the island of St. Helena in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean so that he could no longer "harm the world".

As a young burglar he could, said a fellow ex-prisoner admiringly, "run up the side of a building".

The second engraving, from the Epistle of Jude, illustrates “The Apostate Angels reserved as Prisoners in Chains of Darkness to the Judgment of the Great Day.”

Fasanello states, "Either the material demands a shape, or the shape indicates the material. Designers are prisoners of that relationship." These unrestored pieces are in very good ...

The base is modeled with relief vignettes of prisoners and the lives they might be living if reformation were possible, underscoring the central role Osborne played in rethinking the...

As a prime target for this search, Vichy France first organized the "relief" (sending workers to Germany to "relieve" prisoners), then enacted various requisition laws before introdu...

Based in Brussels at the commission's headquarters she recorded the commission's post-war relief work in north west Europe including the rehabilitation and repatriation of prisoners ...

After the war, during which he was taken prisoner by the Germans, the artist signed Lafon.

Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'Éducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of th...

German resistance is overcome and many Axis prisoners are taken. The Swastika flag is hauled down and the Union Jack takes its place. - with the slogan and rest of the text below - O...

His journey was marked by a deep connection with nature and craftsmanship. Taken prisoner at the beginning of World War II, he was sent to the forested mountains of Herzgebirge in Ge...

Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'Éducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of th...

Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'Éducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of th...

Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'Éducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of th...

This weekly is an anomalous project inspired by two humorous war newspapers: the first La Baracca, produced in a prison camp in Katzenau in 1917 by Italian prisoners of war, the seco...

In 1916 he is taken prisoner in the north of Vienna but he manages to escape and he finally moves to London.

Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'Éducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of th...

In 1916 he is taken prisoner in the north of Vienna but he manages to escape and he finally moves to London.

In 1916 he is taken prisoner in the north of Vienna but he manages to escape and he finally moves to London.

Interesting intaglio etching by German artist Inanger; the imagery features a man--possibly a prisoner--and the severed head and tail of a lobster.

He studied ceramics at the School of Sevres before being sent to the front in 1914. Taken prisoner, he began to draw. At the end of the war, he was hired as a caricaturist by the wee...

Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'Éducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of th...

Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'Éducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of th...

Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'Éducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of th...

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

Indian Agra rugs are often considered the best of Indian rugs in the post-Mughal period and are highly collectible. Prisoners in the country’s jails – including those of Lahore, Yera...

Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'Éducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of th...

He studied ceramics at the Sèvres school before being sent to the front in 1914. Taken prisoner, he began to draw. At the end of the war, he was hired as a caricaturist by the weekly...

., published in Taipei, Taiwan. 2018 Muralist, The Flip Flop Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan. 1976 Poster Art to promote the release of political prisoners in Chili, Amnesty Internation...