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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.
| 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.
| Author | : Grace Cohen Grossman |
| Publisher | : Universe Publishing(NY) |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Recounts 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 | : Marc Michael Epstein |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2022-10-11 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 140086562X |
A superbly illustrated history of five centuries of Jewish manuscripts The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad as the traditions themselves. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers the first full survey of Jewish illuminated manuscripts, ranging from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present day. Featuring some of the most beautiful examples of Jewish art of all time—including hand-illustrated versions of the Bible, the Haggadah, the prayer book, marriage documents, and other beloved Jewish texts—the book introduces readers to the history of these manuscripts and their interpretation. Edited by Marc Michael Epstein with contributions from leading experts, this sumptuous volume features a lively and informative text, showing how Jewish aesthetic tastes and iconography overlapped with and diverged from those of Christianity, Islam, and other traditions. Featured manuscripts were commissioned by Jews and produced by Jews and non-Jews over many centuries, and represent Eastern and Western perspectives and the views of both pietistic and liberal communities across the Diaspora, including Europe, Israel, the Middle East, and Africa. Magnificently illustrated with pages from hundreds of manuscripts, many previously unpublished or rarely seen, Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers surprising new perspectives on Jewish life, presenting the books of the People of the Book as never before.
| Author | : Matthew Baigell |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2006-03-16 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780815630678 |
Born over a fifty-year period, the artists in this volume represent several generations of twentieth-century artists. Examining the work of such influential artists as Mark Rothko, Max Weber, and Ruth Weisberg, Baigell directly confronts their Jewish identity—as a religious, cultural, and psychological component of their lives—and explores the way in which this influence is reflected in their art. Drawing upon their common heritage, Baigell reveals the different ways these artists responded to the Great Immigration, the Depression, the Holocaust, the founding of the state of Israel, and the rise of feminism. Each artist’s varied Jewish experiences have contributed to the creation of a visual language and subject matter that reflect both Jewish assimilation and Jewish continuity in ways that inform modern Jewish history and changes in present-day America. Offering a fresh examination of well-known artists as well as long overdue attention to lesser-known artists, Baigell’s incisive observations are indispensable to our understanding of the Jewish themes in these artists' work. Written in a lively and spirited prose, this book is compulsory reading for those interested in modern American art and Jewish studies.
| Author | : Joseph Shadur |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781584651659 |
The definitive work on papercuts, a long-overlooked aspect of Jewish folk art.
| Author | : Steven Fine |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2005-06-08 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780521844918 |
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| Author | : Marc Michael Epstein |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2011-06-07 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : 0300156669 |
Discusses four illuminated haggadot, manuscripts created for use at home services on Passover, all created in the early twelfth century.
| Author | : Caroline A. Kita |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2019-02-14 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0253040566 |
During the mid-19th century, the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner sparked an impulse toward German cultural renewal and social change that drew on religious myth, metaphysics, and spiritualism. The only problem was that their works were deeply antisemitic and entangled with claims that Jews were incapable of creating compassionate art. By looking at the works of Jewish composers and writers who contributed to a lively and robust biblical theatre in fin de siècle Vienna, Caroline A. Kita shows how they reimagined myths of the Old Testament to offer new aesthetic and ethical views of compassion. These Jewish artists, including Gustav Mahler, Siegfried Lipiner, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Stefan Zweig, and Arnold Schoenberg, reimagined biblical stories through the lens of the modern Jewish subject to plead for justice and compassion toward the Jewish community. By tracing responses to antisemitic discourses of compassion, Kita reflects on the explicitly and increasingly troubled political and social dynamics at the end of the Habsburg Empire.
