From the friend's drawer: Mengü Ertel's Collection of Cihat Burak's works.= Dostun çekmecesinden: Mengü Ertel'in Koleksiyonundan Cihat Burak eserleri.

Original bdg. HC. Folio. (34 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 115 p., ills. From the friend's drawer: Mengü Ertel's Collection of Cihat Burak's works.= Dostun çekmecesinden: Mengü Ertel'in Koleksiyonundan Cihat Burak eserleri. The book focusing on over 80 drawings by Cihat Burak, one of the most important representatives of figurative painting in Turkey, from the Mengü Ertel Collection, has been named "From A Friend s Drawer" in reference to the duo s friendship. It cracks open a door onto the universe shared by these two friends from the 1960s, characterized by the dialogue between literature and painting, poster and design, architecture and theatre, all the way up to the early 1990s. The book written by Oguz Erten is particular in that it allows for a reading of Cihat Burak through his own stories. Everything about him that makes Cihat Burak who he is which may at times become crystallized in yearning for the mother, at times in the anxiety over losing Istanbul, at times in his love for animals and other times in his love for books to the extent of losing himself in a novel are brought alive to speak of him in his own words, while Mengü Ertel s collection serves to visualize this dream-world. The book provides us with the opportunity of placing Cihat Burak a figure who, while he lived, observed us from the outside as an insider and expressed these observations in his stories and paintings in the seat of the one being watched instead, allowing us to enjoy seeing him in all of his aspects.