The Jewish Contribution in Twentieth-century Art
Author | : Milwaukee Art Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Milwaukee Art Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Samantha Baskind |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Art, American |
ISBN | : 9780271059839 |
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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Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art movements |
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Author | : Ori Z. Soltes |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art, American |
ISBN | : 1584650494 |
The first full-color book to examine Jewish American painters and their works.
Author | : Avram Kampf |
Publisher | : Ben Uri Gallery & Museum |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Charles Dellheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781684580569 |
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.
Author | : Norman Lebrecht |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-12-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1982134232 |
This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin, genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. What do these visionaries have in common? They all had Jewish origins. They all had a gift for thinking in wholly original, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847, the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world’s population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why? Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent, beautifully designed volume is “an urgent and moving history” (The Spectator, UK) and a celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
Author | : Avram Kampf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780275939007 |
Author | : Jonathan Freedman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2021-04-26 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 022658108X |
"Freedman's final book is a tour de force that examines the history of Jewish involvement in the decadent art movement. While decadent art's most notorious practitioner was Oscar Wilde, as a movement it spread through western Europe and even included a few adherents in Russia. Jewish writers and artists such as Catulle Mèndes, Gustav Kahn, and Simeon Solomon would portray non-stereotyped characters and produce highly influential works. After decadent art's peak, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud would take up the idiom of decadence and carry it with them during the cultural transition to modernism. Freedman expertly and elegantly takes readers through this transition and beyond, showing the lineage of Jewish decadence all the way through to the end of the twentieth century"--
Author | : Ben Schachter |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271080825 |
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.