Art Talk

WWII Tragedy Turned This Doctor into an Artist


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When I mentioned in last week's program, The Best of 9/11, the captivating exhibition of Italian artist Alberto Burri

currently on display at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, I was still
ignorant of the most important and dramatic experience of his life.
While serving as a physician in the Italian army in North Africa, he was
captured in 1943 by American troops and then imprisoned for three years
at a POW camp in Texas...

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