Antwerp-New York

Joos, E: 2005 Antwerp, softcover 112 pages, with many illustrations of the art-works. “Antwerp-New York; Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875–1930) and the Emigrants of the Red Star Line” presents the powerful drawings and paintings of Antwerp artist Eugeen Van Mieghem, who documented the departure of some 2.5 million European emigrants boarding Red Star Line ships bound for North America around 1900. Combining art history and migration history, Erwin Joos highlights these long-forgotten visual testimonies of life in the port of Antwerp and the human drama of transatlantic migration. ISBN 9789076704999 In very good condition. English Language