Author: National Council on Art in Jewish Life (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Jewish art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Readings on Jewish Art
Author: National Council on Art in Jewish Life (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Readings on Jewish Art
Author: National Council on Art in Jewish Life. New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Readings on Jewish Art
Author: National Council on Art in Jewish LifePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish art
Languages : en
Pages :
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Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art
Author: Ben SchachterPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271080825
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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.
Readings in Jewish Art
Author: Readings on Jewish art
Author: Belonging and Betrayal
Author: Charles DellheimPublisher:
ISBN: 9781684580569
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. In Belonging and Betrayal, distinguished historian Charles Dellheim tells the story of the rise and fall of a small number of Jews, individuals, and families, who were merchants and connoisseurs as well as dealers and collectors of fine art. They competed and cooperated at various times and operated more often than not on both sides of the Atlantic. The protagonists of this story took a leading part in the critical transformations that shook the art world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the great migration of Old Master paintings from Europe to the United States; and the eventual triumph of modern art as Jewish dealers became the modernists' champions. The story begins with the entry of Jewish dealers into the art world in the late nineteenth century and ends with the Nazi plunder of their collections. Along the way, the narrative takes us into a variety of European capitals--Paris, London, Berlin, and Vienna--as well as American cities, notably Boston and New York. It sets the protagonists' stories against the backdrop of the broader changes that affected their fortunes and transformed art and society: The gradual opening of high culture, the dynamics of assimilation, acculturation, and antisemitism, the decline of the landed classes, the ascent of a new capitalist elite, the cultural impact of the "Great War," and the Nazi war against the Jews.
Readings on Jewish Art
Author: National Council on Art in Jewish Life (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Jewish art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-century America
Author: Samantha BaskindPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271059839
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores 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.
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