Secularizing the sacred : aspects of Israeli visual culture / by Alec Mishory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mishory, Alec, author.

Series:

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 65.

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; volume 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Israeli--History--20th century.

Art, Israeli.

Art, Modern--19th century--History.

Art, Modern.

Jewish art and symbolism--Israel.

Jewish art and symbolism.

Jewish art and symbolism--Palestine.

Zionism in art.

History.

Israel.

Middle East--Palestine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

XXVI, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

"As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging "civil religion." Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mishory, Alec, author. Secularizing the sacred

ISBN:

9789004405264

9004405267

OCLC:

1096216350