Jewish Identity In Modern Art History
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Jewish Identity in Modern Art History
Author | : Catherine M. Soussloff |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520213043 |
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The book asks all the right questions about society, culture, religion and art.
Jewish Identity in Modern Art History
Author | : Catherine M. Soussloff |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520920675 |
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In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse. At the same time, these essays introduce to art history an understanding of the place of cultural identity in the production of scholarship. Contributors explore the meaning of Jewishness to writers and artists alike through such topics as exile, iconoclasm, and anti-Semitism. Included are essays on Anselm Kiefer and Theodor Adorno; the effects of the Enlightenment; the rise of the nation-state; Nazi policies on art history; the criticism of Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, and Aby Warburg; the art of Judy Chicago, Eleanor Antin, and Morris Gottlieb; and Jewish patronage of German Expressionist art. Offering a new approach to the history of art in which the cultural identities of the makers and interpreters play a constitutive role, this collection begins an important and overdue dialogue that will have a significant impact on the fields of art history, Jewish studies, and cultural studies.
Complex Identities
Author | : Matthew Baigell,Milly Heyd |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0813528690 |
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Focusing on 19th-and 20th-century European, American and Israeli artists, the contributors explore the ways in which Jewish artists have responded to their Jewishness and to the societies in which they lived (or live), and how these factors have influenced their art, their choice of subject matter, and presentation of their work.
The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times
Author | : Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett,Jonathan Karp |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2013-02-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780812208863 |
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The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance of the artist, as in the case of popular Israeli singer Zehava Ben, the intention of the iconography, as in Ben Shahn's antifascist paintings, or the utopian ideals of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, clearly no single formula for defining Jewish art in the diaspora will suffice. The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times is the first work to analyze modern Jewry's engagement with the arts as a whole, including music, theater, dance, film, museums, architecture, painting, sculpture, and more. Working with a broad conception of what counts as art, the book asks the following questions: What roles have commerce and politics played in shaping Jewish artistic agendas? Who determines the Jewishness of art and for what purposes? What role has aesthetics played in reshaping religious traditions and rituals? This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the various challenges of modernity, including cultural adaptation and self-preservation, economic diversification, and ritual transformation. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world—or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world—and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance.
Image Action and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art
Author | : Ben Schachter |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780271080826 |
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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.
Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art
Author | : Lisa E. Bloom |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781134695669 |
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Featuring sixty-seven illustrations, and providing an important reckoning and visualization of the previously hidden Jewish 'ghosts' within US art, Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art addresses the veiled role of Jewishness in the understanding of feminist art in the United States. From New York city to Southern California, Lisa E. Bloom situates the art practices of Jewish feminist artists from the 1970s to the present in relation to wider cultural and historical issues. Key themes are examined in depth through the work of contemporary Jewish artists including: Eleanor Antin Judy Chicago Deborah Kass Rhonda Lieberman Martha Rosler and many others. Crucial in any study of art, visual studies, women's studies and cultural studies, this is a new and lively exploration into a vital component of US art.
Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture
Author | : Rose-Carol Washton Long,Matthew Baigell,Milly Heyd |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781584657958 |
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A fascinating look at key aspects of visual culture in modern Jewish history
Jewish Art
Author | : Samantha Baskind,Larry Silver |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Jewish art |
ISBN | : 1861898029 |
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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.