PAUL ELUARD’S ADDRESS AT THE WORLD CONGRESS OF INTELLECTUALS IN DEFENCE OF PEACE, 1948
PAUL ELUARD’S ADDRESS AT THE WORLD CONGRESS OF INTELLECTUALS IN DEFENCE OF PEACE, 1948
Author(s): Grzegorz BąbiakContributor(s): Tristan Korecki (Translator)
Subject(s): Political history, International relations/trade, Security and defense, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Political Essay, Conference Report, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Paul Eluard; Congress of Intellectuals in Defence of Peace; 1948; Wrocław;
Summary/Abstract: The 20 August 1948 issue of Odrodzenie weekly featured a photographic profile portrait of a man holding a newspaper. It was Paul Eluard, the caption said. The photo can be analysed in two aspects, direct and metaphorical. The direct layer opens the column of photographic portrayals of Members of the French Delegation to the Congress in Wrocław. Below the Eluard portrait, the effigies of Laurent Casanova, Vercors, Louis Aragon, Claude Aveline, Armand Salacrou, Le Corbusier, and Jean-Louis Barrault were placed. The team was made of twenty-seven delegates, and a portrait of Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric was published on the front page. The selection and arrangement of the photos might have been incidental, but it may as well have reflected an underlying design. Basically, Eluard positioned above Aragon and Vercors might have been in line with the inviter’s sympathies.
Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 123
- Page Range: 309-320
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English