Riko

Hardcover edition. A biography of a Czech artist educated in the 1920s and `30s in the most artistically revolutionary capitals of the world: Vienna Berlin Prague Paris who gets caught in the Nazi dragnet through his marriage to a Czech Jew. The story follows their double exiles first to war-time England and then to the United States where they delight and despair over re-establishing Riko as a first-class artist in the radically evolving cultural decades from the `50s to the `80s.