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Hedendaagse Joodse kunst in België na 1950.
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ISBN: 9075463197 Year: 1999 Publisher: Mechelen Cultureel Centrum Spinoy

Ancient Jewish art and archaeology in the land of Israel
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ISBN: 9004081151 Year: 1988 Publisher: Leiden E.J. Brill


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Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history
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ISBN: 019025470X 0199934258 019993424X 9780199934256 1299669247 9781299669246 9780199934249 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, Volume XXVI of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry examines the visual revolution that has overtaken Jewish cultural life in the twentieth century onwards, with special attention given to the evolution of Jewish museums. Bringing together leading curators and scholars, Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History treats various forms of Jewish representation in museums in Europe and the United States before the Second World War and inquires

The Artless Jew
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ISBN: 1282767003 9786612767005 1400823579 1400811074 9781400811076 9781400823574 9781282767003 069108985X 9780691089850 0691010439 9780691010434 069108985X 9780691089850 1400800757 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Conventional wisdom holds that Judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "graven images," the dictates of monotheism, and historical happenstance. This intellectual history of medieval and modern Jewish attitudes toward art and representation overturns the modern assumption of Jewish iconophobia that denies to Jewish culture a visual dimension. Kalman Bland synthesizes evidence from medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, poetry, biblical commentaries, travelogues, and law, concluding that premodern Jewish intellectuals held a positive, liberal understanding of the Second Commandment and did, in fact, articulate a certain Jewish aesthetic. He draws on this insight to consider modern ideas of Jewish art, revealing how they are inextricably linked to diverse notions about modern Jewish identity that are themselves entwined with arguments over Zionism, integration, and anti-Semitism. Through its use of the past to illuminate the present and its analysis of how the present informs our readings of the past, this book establishes a new assessment of Jewish aesthetic theory rooted in historical analysis. Authoritative and original in its identification of authentic Jewish traditions of painting, sculpture, and architecture, this volume will ripple the waters of several disciplines, including Jewish studies, art history, medieval and modern history, and philosophy.


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Looking Jewish
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ISBN: 0253015421 9780253015426 9780253005984 0253005981 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bloomington

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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 art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting entitled Albert: Used to Be Abraham, a double portrait of a man, which serves to illustrate Zemel's conception of the doubleness of Jewish diasporic art. She considers two interwar photographers, Alter Kacyzne and Mos


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Jewish Cultural Aspirations
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ISBN: 1612492363 155753635X Year: 2012 Publisher: Purdue University Press

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In the late nineteenth century in Europe and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper middle class—particularly the more affluent families—began to enter the cultural spheres of public life, especially in major cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York, and London. While many aspects of society were closed to them, theater, the visual arts, music, and art publication were far more inviting, especially if they involved challenging aspects of modernity that might be less attractive to Gentile society. Jews had far less to lose in embracing new forms of expression, and they were very attracted to what was regarded as the universality of cultural expression. Ultimately, these new cultural ideals had an enormous influence on art institutions and artistic manifestations in America and may explain why Jews have been active in the arts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to a degree totally out of proportion to their presence in the US population. Jewish cultural activities and aspirations form the focus of the contributions to this volume. Invited authors include senior figures in the field such as Matthew Baigell and Emily Bilski, alongside authors of a younger generation such as Daniel Magilow and Marcie Kaufman. There is also an essay by noted Los Angeles artist and photographer Bill Aron. The guest editor of the volume, Ruth Weisberg, provides an Introduction that places the individual contributions in context.

Le témoignage de l'absence: les objets du sanctuaire à Byzance et dans l'art juif du XIe au XVe siècle
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ISBN: 2701801222 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris De Boccard


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Joden en Europa : cultuur - geschiedenis
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ISBN: 9061529492 9789061529491 Year: 1996 Publisher: Leuven Davidsfonds

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Dit fotoboek brengt het leven en de geschiedenis van het joodse volk in beeld en schetst 2.000 jaar Europese cultuur die zich voedde met het joodse erfgoed. De volgende onderwerpen worden belicht: de diaspora, de vervolgingen en de Holocaust; de riten, feesten en gebruiken; architectuur, ceremoniële kunst, muziek, boek-, schilder- en filmkunst; talen en literatuur.


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Florine Stettheimer : painting poetry
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ISBN: 9780300221985 0300221983 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Stettheimer was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemian and a flapper, a poet, a theater designer, and above all an influential painter with a sharp satirical wit. Stettheimer collaborated with Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, befriended (and took French lessons from) Marcel Duchamp, and was a member of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe's artistic and intellectual circle. Beautifully illustrated with 150 color images, including the majority of the artist's extant paintings, as well as drawings, theater designs, and ephemera, this volume also highlights Stettheimer's poetry and gives her a long overdue critical reassessment. Exhibition:The Jewish Museum, New York, USA (05.05-24.09.2017); Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (21.10.2017-28.01.2018).

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