Israel revisited / Beth Ames Swartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swartz, Beth Ames, 1936- artist.

Contributor:

Appelhof, Ruth Ann, interviewer, guest curator.

Rand, Harry, National Museum of American Art., contributing essayist.

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), exhibition venue.

University of California, Irvine, exhibition venue.

Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum, exhibition venue.

University of Arizona. Museum of Art, exhibition venue.

Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, exhibition venue.

Beaumont Art Museum, exhibition venue.

Albuquerque Museum, exhibition venue.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swartz, Beth Ames, 1936---Exhibitions.

Swartz, Beth Ames, 1936-.

Mixed media (Art).

Israel--In art--Exhibitions.

Mixed media (Art)--20th century--Exhibitions.

Israel.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Art.

Physical Description:

43 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 26 cm

Other Title:

Beth Ames Swartz

Place of Publication:

Scottsdale, Ariz. : B.A. Swartz, [1981]

Summary:

"'Israel Revisited', both as a series of works of art as well as an elaborate conceptual project, is an apotheosis of art as a product of the process of life. For in the works of art which comprise this museum offering, and particularly focusing on the 'Ten Sites Series', Beth Ames Swartz presents the formal and aesthetic evocation of her recent personal quest for 'relatedness' and 'rootedness' in the historical and metaphysical past of Israel. These works are the result of a two-year project in which an emerging new technique sought contextual meanings and referents deeply personal and atavistic." -- Nancy Berman, Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum, page 3.

Swartz's unique artistic technique involves manipulating and altering paper with fire, paint, soil, and gilding. The book also includes maps and charts associated with her 1980 site visits in Israel involved in creating some of the works.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum in New York from September 21, 1981 - January 3, 1982, and at 7 other museums in the U.S. and Israel from January 14, 1982 - December 31, 1983.

Foreword by Nancy Berman. Introduction by Harry Rand. Interview with Beth Ames Swartz by Ruth Ann Appelhof.

Errata slip laid in.

Includes bibliographical references, page 37-41.

Other Format:

Online version: Swartz, Beth Ames, 1936- Israel revisited.

OCLC:

9097971