Roma Artist Ceija Stojka. What Should I Be Afraid of?
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ROMA ARTIST CEIJA STOJKA
What Should I Be Afraid of?
This is the first English monograph on the artist Ceija Stojka (1933 –2013). Beginning in the 1980s, Stojka created over a thousand drawings and paintings, whose subjects range from landscapes and recollections of her happy, prewar existence as part of a large horse-trading family to the mounting oppression of the Roma under the Nazi regime.
Having survived the three concentration camps Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz as a child, Stojka left behind an oeuvre depicting her personal experience of arrests, exterminations, survival, and liberation, which was shared by millions. 2023 marks the 90th year of Stojka’s birth and the 10th year of her passing. It further celebrates the 30th Anniversary since Roma were recognised as an official ethnic group in Austria (1993) after years of activism during which Ceija Stojka stood together with other Austrian Roma to become part of the social majority.
Texts by Simona Jürs Anozie, Stephanie Buhmann, Lorely French, Michaela Grobbel, Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Carina Kurta
Includes unpublished texts and notebook excerpts by Ceija Stojka
Year: 2023
Editors: Stephanie Buhmann, Lorely E. French, Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Carina Kurta
Publisher: Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Language: English
Pages: 104, 45 color illustrations, 14 x 20,5 cm, bounded
ISBN: 978-3-7774-4272-3
https://www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-6-6/roma_artist_ceija_stojka-2518/
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo214796004.html
https://www.fresko-magazin.de/die-erinnerungsbilder-der-romni-ceija-stojka/
What Should I Be Afraid of?
This is the first English monograph on the artist Ceija Stojka (1933 –2013). Beginning in the 1980s, Stojka created over a thousand drawings and paintings, whose subjects range from landscapes and recollections of her happy, prewar existence as part of a large horse-trading family to the mounting oppression of the Roma under the Nazi regime.
Having survived the three concentration camps Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz as a child, Stojka left behind an oeuvre depicting her personal experience of arrests, exterminations, survival, and liberation, which was shared by millions. 2023 marks the 90th year of Stojka’s birth and the 10th year of her passing. It further celebrates the 30th Anniversary since Roma were recognised as an official ethnic group in Austria (1993) after years of activism during which Ceija Stojka stood together with other Austrian Roma to become part of the social majority.
Texts by Simona Jürs Anozie, Stephanie Buhmann, Lorely French, Michaela Grobbel, Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Carina Kurta
Includes unpublished texts and notebook excerpts by Ceija Stojka
Year: 2023
Editors: Stephanie Buhmann, Lorely E. French, Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Carina Kurta
Publisher: Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Language: English
Pages: 104, 45 color illustrations, 14 x 20,5 cm, bounded
ISBN: 978-3-7774-4272-3
https://www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-6-6/roma_artist_ceija_stojka-2518/
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo214796004.html
https://www.fresko-magazin.de/die-erinnerungsbilder-der-romni-ceija-stojka/