It has been clear for some time now that received accounts of art in the decades following World War II are deeply unsatisfying.

French Socialist Realist painter Boris Taslitzky, who risked death drawing portraits on scraps of SS stationery he stole as a prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp, has died in Paris at the age of 94.

A French artist famed for his portraits of life in a Nazi concentration camp died. Boris Taslitzky, a Socialist Realist painter, passed away over the weekend and was to be buried in Paris on Wednesday ...