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Modern Jewish Art

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Author : Ori Soltes
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-07

Modern Jewish Art written by Ori Soltes and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-07 with Religion categories.

In Modern Jewish Art: Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities, Ori Z. Soltes considers both the emerging and evolving discussion on, and the expanding array of practitioners of ‘Jewish art’ in the past two hundred years. He notes the developing problem of how to define ‘Judaism’ in the 19th century—as a religion, a culture, a race, a nation, a people—and thus the complications for placing ‘Jewish art’ under the extended umbrella of ‘religion and the arts.’ The fluidity with which one must engage the subject is reflected in the broadening conceptual and visual vocabulary, the extended range of subject foci and media, and the increasingly rich analytical approaches to the subject that have surfaced particularly in the past fifty years. Well-known and little-known artists are included in a far-ranging discussion of painting, sculpture, photography, video, installations, ceremonial objects, and works that blur the boundaries between categories.

Raphael Soyer And The Search For Modern Jewish Art

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Author : Samantha Baskind
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-12-01

Raphael Soyer And The Search For Modern Jewish Art written by Samantha Baskind and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Art categories.

Artist Raphael Soyer (1899–1987), whose Russian Jewish family settled in Manhattan in 1912, was devoted to painting people in their everyday urban lives. He came to be known especially for his representations of city workers and the down-and-out, and for his portraits of himself and his friends. Although Soyer never identified himself as a “Jewish artist,” Samantha Baskind, in the first full-length critical study of the artist, argues that his work was greatly influenced by his ethnicity and by the Jewish American immigrant experience. Baskind examines the painter’s art and life in the rich context of religious, cultural, political, and social conditions in the twentieth-century United States. By promoting an understanding of Soyer as a Jewish American artist, she addresses larger questions about the definition and study of modern Jewish art. Whereas previous scholars have defined Jewish art simply as art produced by people who were born Jewish, Baskind stresses the importance of an artist’s cultural identity when defining ethnic art. As Baskind explains how Soyer negotiated his Jewish identity in changing ways over his lifetime, she offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting Jewish art in general. Her analysis of Soyer’s work places the artist in a necessary context and provides a valuable new approach to the study of modern Jewish art.

Imagining Jewish Art

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Author : Aaron Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05

Imagining Jewish Art written by Aaron Rosen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Foreign Language Study categories.

Short-listed for the Art and Christian Enquiry/Mercers' International Book Award 2009: 'a book which makes an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts'. What does modern Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art in Biblical illustrations and other traditional subjects, Rosen sets out to discover Jewishness in unlikely places. How, he asks, have modern Jewish painters explored their Jewish identity using an artistic past which is- by and large - non-Jewish? In this new book we encounter some of the great works of Western art history through Jewish eyes. We see Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece re-imagined by Marc Chagall (1887-1985), traces of Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca in Philip Guston (1913-1980), and images by Diego Velazquez and Paul Cezanne studiously reworked by R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007). This highly comparative study draws on theological, philosophical and literary sources from Franz Rosenzweig to Franz Kafka and Philip Roth. Rosen deepens our understanding not only of Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj but also of how art might serve as a key resource for rethinking such fundamental Jewish concepts as family, tradition, and homeland.

Trends In Modern Jewish Art

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Author : Daniel Sperber
language : en
Publisher:
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Trends In Modern Jewish Art written by Daniel Sperber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

Jewish Art

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Author : Samantha Baskind
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

Jewish Art written by Samantha Baskind and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Jewish art categories.

Covering nearly two centuries, this is a comprehensive account of the art made by Jews across Europe, America and Israel. The book discusses many issues including the shifting Jewish identity, the effects of the diaspora, anti-Semitism and the distinctive character of images made within a Christian.

Studies In Contemporary Jewry

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Author : Ezra Mendelsohn
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Release Date : 1990-11-30

Studies In Contemporary Jewry written by Ezra Mendelsohn and has been published by Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-11-30 with History categories.

The sixth volume of the annual publication of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Art and Its Uses analyzes the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images, from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and political propaganda. The use of such material to illuminate aspects of modern history and society is rather uncommon in the field of modern Jewish studies; these essays provide the tools necessary for understanding the image in its proper social and political context. The distinguished contributors include Richard I. Cohen, Michael Berkowitz, Milly Heyd, Irit Rogoff, Chone Shmeruk, Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Vivianne Barsky, and Vivian Mann. Accompanied by more than 160 illustrations, the essays shed new light on such topics as Jewish nationalism, Jewish identity, and Jewish-gentile relations. In addition to the symposium, the volume contains articles by major scholars of contemporary Jewish studies, a substantial book review section, and a list of recent dissertations in the field.

Painting A People

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Author : Ezra Mendelsohn
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2002

Painting A People written by Ezra Mendelsohn and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.

Analyzes the life, work, and reception of a founding father of modern Jewish art in Eastern Europe.

Image Action And Idea In Contemporary Jewish Art

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Author : Ben Schachter
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2017-12-15

Image Action And Idea In Contemporary Jewish Art written by Ben Schachter and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Art categories.

Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism and interpretation, Ben Schachter advocates instead a new approach focused on action and process. Departing from the traditional interpretation of the Second Commandment, Schachter addresses abstraction, conceptual art, performance art, and other styles that do not rely on imagery for meaning. He examines Jewish art through the concept of melachot—work-like “creative activities” as defined by the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. Showing the similarity between art and melachot in the active processes of contemporary Jewish artists such as Ruth Weisberg, Allan Wexler, Archie Rand, and Nechama Golan, he explores the relationship between these artists’ methods and Judaism’s demanding attention to procedure. A compellingly written challenge to traditionalism, Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art makes a well-argued case for artistic production, interpretation, and criticism that revels in the dual foundation of Judaism and art history.

Looking Jewish

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Author : Carol Zemel
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-29

Looking Jewish written by Carol Zemel and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-29 with Social Science categories.

"Thanks to Carol Zemel's provocative study, we are invited to look at Jewish art in new ways . . . provides a deeper understanding of the ordeal of diaspora." — Studies in American Jewish Literature Jewish art and visual culture—art made by Jews about Jews—in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting by Ken Aptekar entitled Albert: Used to Be Abraham, a double portrait of a man, which serves to illustrate Zemel's conception of the doubleness of Jewish diasporic art. She considers two interwar photographers, Alter Kacyzne and Moshe Vorobeichic; images by the Polish writer Bruno Schulz; the pre- and postwar photographs of Roman Vishniac; the figure of the Jewish mother in postwar popular culture (Molly Goldberg); and works by R. B. Kitaj, Ben Katchor, and Vera Frenkel that explore Jewish identity in a postmodern environment.

Jewish Expressionism

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Author : Marycelka K. Straughn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Jewish Expressionism written by Marycelka K. Straughn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art, Jewish categories.