Drawings for a War. 1936-1939
Drawings for a war. 1936-1939 It is a book for all audiences that gathers the experience of the girls and boys who drew the Spanish Civil War, after suffering the indiscriminate bombings. They were between 4 and 15 years old. In order to save them, the Government of the Second Republic organized their evacuation to the colonies of Levante, far from their families, but surrounded by a group of teachers. There, in their new home and under the guidance of a great pedagogical project led by women, the children drew what they had experienced: the bombings, the day of their evacuation…, but they also printed on paper what their life was like before the war, the games in the colonies and their future after the end of the conflict.
This book has selected 90 drawings from 2000 that remain today in 4 libraries in Spain and the United States. The texts that accompany the images help us to contextualize the historical moment in which they were made, to understand the transcendence of this historical legacy and, above all, to become aware of the suffering of the most vulnerable in the face of a war conflict.
