Jewish art / Grace Cohen Grossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossman, Grace Cohen.

Contributor:

Hugh Lauter Levin Associates.

Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish art.

Judaism and art.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Hugh Lauter Levin Assoc., Inc, 1995.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

From holy to heritage: collectors and collections of Jewish art

The origins of Jewish art in antiquity

Hebrew illuminated manuscripts: portraying medieval Jewish life

among the nations: Jewish art in distant lands

The realm of Torah

Passages: marking the life cycle in the Jewish tradition

The Sabbath: "Day of delight"

Celerbrations: the Jewish holidays

New directions: interpreting Jewish ceremonial art for modern times

Jewish expression in twentieth-century fine arts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-315) and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Visual Arts, Winner, 1995

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.

Presented to the Penn Libraries from the collection of Grace Cohen Grossman.

Other Format:

Online version: Grossman, Grace Cohen. Jewish art.

ISBN:

0883636956

9780883636954

OCLC:

33481085