Looking Jewish : visual culture and modern diaspora / Carol Zemel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zemel, Carol, 1941-2021, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish art.

Jews in art.

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Art, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253015426

0253015421

OCLC:

908447869