Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker. (Journal, Zurich, 1916). Signed.

Berkeley, CA: 2011. Handbound typescript, ca. 150 pages. 4to. Signed and dedicated with a TLs."Begun in 2001, this is a fragmented narrative about a fictional Czech Jew who first appears in World War 1 in Zurich in the Dada Cabaret Voltaire, lives through the 20th century, and now resides in California. After the 1924 death of Franz Kafka Rachel Marker writes to him daily about her own writing, experiences and thoughts, and describes to him events in European history in the 1920s and 1930s, especially the rise of fascism, and a visit to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. In the fall of 1939, she flees to Paris after the German invasion of Prague, and finally turns up in Berlin after the 1989 Fall of the Wall, where she takes photographs every day of the city’s shadows.I have also written several plays about Rachel Marker: “Rachel Marker, Franz Kafka and Alice Sommer” (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 2005); “Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker” (Berkeley and Potsdam, Germany, 2005-2006); and in 2008 directed and performed in a three-part play about Rachel Marker at the Right Window Gallery in San Francisco’s Mission District."'After teaching at various University of California (U.C.) campuses (Irvine, 1970-1972, Santa Cruz, 1973-1974, and San Diego, 1974-1985), I came to Mills College, Oakland, in 1985, where I was appointed the Trefethen Chair of Art History. " From the collection of the art historian, Peter Selz.