Looking Jewish : Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora /

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Jewish art and visual culture-art made by Jews about Jews-in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zemel, Carol, 1941-2021 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Konst > historia.
Judar i konsten.
Judisk konst.
Jews in art.
Jewish art.
Art, Modern.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
ART > Subjects & Themes > General.
Art > 21e siecle.
Art > 20e siecle.
Juifs dans l'art.
Art juif.
Art, Modern > 21st century.
Art, Modern > 20th century.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beyond the ghetto walls: shtetl to nation in photography by Alter Kacyzne and Moshe Vorobeichic
  • Modern artist, modern Jew: Bruno Schulz's diasporas
  • Z'chor! Roman Vishniac's photo-eulogy of Eastern European Jews
  • Difference in diaspora: the Yiddishe mama, the Jewish mother, the Jewish princess, and their men
  • Diasporic values in contemporary art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel.

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