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Author: Samantha Baskind
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780271059839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the works of five major American Jewish artists: Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj. Focuses on the use of imagery influenced by the Bible.
Author: Samantha Baskind
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781861898029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering 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.
Author: Catherine M. Soussloff
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-03-31
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780520213043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book asks all the right questions about society, culture, religion and art.
Author: Lee I. Levine
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780300100891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys Jewish visual culture in the Late Roman and Byzantine eras, including expression via figural images, biblical scenes and religious symbols.
Author: Jacobo Furman
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Dellheim
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2021-09-21
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 1684580560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe old masters' new masters -- Was modernism Jewish? -- In the middle -- To have and have not.
Author: James McAuley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-03-23
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0300252544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them.
Author: Ben Schachter
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0271080825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary 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.
Author: Grace Cohen Grossman
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the history of art within Jewish culture, explains how Jewish artists have worked as a response to living as a minority in other civilizations, and discusses manuscripts, ceremonial objects, and the works of modern artists of Jewish heritage.
Author: Laura Arnold Leibman
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center - Cultura
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781941792209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 1750 and 1850: a letter from impoverished Hannah Louzada seeking assistance; a set of silver cups owned by Reyna Levy Moses; an ivory miniature owned by Sarah Brandon Moses, who was born enslaved and became one of the wealthiest Jewish women in New York; a book created by Sarah Ann Hays Mordecai; and a family silhouette owned by Rebbetzin Jane Symons Isaacs. These objects offer intimate and tangible views into the lives of Jewish American women from a range of statuses, beliefs, and lifestyles--both rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, slaves and slaveowners. Each chapter creates a biography of a single woman through an object, offering a new methodology that looks past texts alone to material culture in order to further understand early Jewish American women's lives and restore their agency as creators of Jewish identity. While much of the available history was written by men, the objects that Leibman studies were made for and by Jewish women. Speaking to American Jewish life, women's studies, and American history, The Art of the Jewish Family sheds new light on the lives and values of these women, while also revealing the social and religious structures that led to Jewish women being erased from historical archives. The Art of the Jewish Family was the winner of three 2020 National Jewish Book Awards: the Celebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies, the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award for History, and the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies.
