Soldier's Notebook. Illustrated Memoir of an American in France.
Elytis| N° d'inventaire | 23428 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 96 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Bordeaux, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782356393128 |
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Victor Lundy, a 19-year-old New York student, interrupted his architecture studies and decided to enlist in the U.S. Army. He joined the 26th Infantry Division and, after very basic training at Fort Jackson, arrived in France in August 1944 to join the front. Particularly gifted at drawing, he took advantage of rare moments of respite to fill his sketchbooks.
Portraits of sleeping comrades, landscapes and architecture of Norman towns... fleeting impressions of his time spent in the army, recorded in his precious "sketchbooks". Wounded in combat in November 1944, he did not return to the front and instead returned to Harvard University to continue his architectural studies, under the tutelage of illustrious Bauhaus professors, who would make him one of the leaders of modernist architecture in the United States.
The sketchbooks of soldier and future architect Victor Lundy are a precious historical testimony to the suspended moments spent in France during wartime.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Victor Lundy, a 19-year-old New York student, interrupted his architecture studies and decided to enlist in the U.S. Army. He joined the 26th Infantry Division and, after very basic training at Fort Jackson, arrived in France in August 1944 to join the front. Particularly gifted at drawing, he took advantage of rare moments of respite to fill his sketchbooks.
Portraits of sleeping comrades, landscapes and architecture of Norman towns... fleeting impressions of his time spent in the army, recorded in his precious "sketchbooks". Wounded in combat in November 1944, he did not return to the front and instead returned to Harvard University to continue his architectural studies, under the tutelage of illustrious Bauhaus professors, who would make him one of the leaders of modernist architecture in the United States.
The sketchbooks of soldier and future architect Victor Lundy are a precious historical testimony to the suspended moments spent in France during wartime.