EXILE OF CAMILIAN DEMETRESCU IN ITALY. MILITANCY, ANTI-COMMUNISM AND PROFESSIONALISM Cover Image

ESILIO DI CAMILIAN DEMETRESCU IN ITALIA. MILITANTISMO, ANTICOMUNISMO E PROFESSIONALITÀ
EXILE OF CAMILIAN DEMETRESCU IN ITALY. MILITANCY, ANTI-COMMUNISM AND PROFESSIONALISM

Author(s): Adrian Gabriel Corpădean, Anca Stângaciu
Subject(s): Cold-War History
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: anticommunism; political exile; militantism; art; democracy;

Summary/Abstract: Anti-communist by excellence in spirit, the painter, sculptor and illustrator Camilian Demetrescu left Romania and went to Italy, tired of the continuous persistent attempts of the Securitate to attire him into becoming a collaborator. He left Romania legally in 1969, with a passport, and when the visa expired, he asked for political asylum. His stay in a capitalist country, but most of all the depths of his cultural and political exile, reflected in the articles of the Italian printed press and in the participation to actions or congresses, determined the Securitate not only to target him informatively, but also to threaten him, fact that did not stop him from being up to the end, with stoicism and determination, a convinced and militant anti-communist, a promoter of democracy and of human rights, but also an artist, who kept in his paintings, illustrations and sculptures the emotional relationship with Romania.

  • Issue Year: 66/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 107-133
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Italian
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