Fragile images : Jews and art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945 / by Mirjam Rajner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajner, Mirjam, 1959- author.

Series:

Balkan studies library ; v.26.

[Balkan studies library], 1877-6272 ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish artists--Yugoslavia--Biography.

Jewish artists.

Art, Yugoslav--Themes, motives.

Art, Yugoslav.

Art and society--Yugoslavia.

Art and society.

Yugoslavia.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvii unnumbered pages, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

"In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Moša Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by multiple and changeable identities: nationalist and universalist, Zionist and Sephardic, communist and cosmopolitan. These fluctuating identities found expression in their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates, partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images, diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath"-- Provided by publisher.

"In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Mo�sa Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by multiple and changeable identities: nationalist and universalist, Zionist and Sephardic, communist and cosmopolitan. These fluctuating identities found expression in their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates, partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images, diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

In search of an identity : Sephardic, Zionist, Yugoslav

From avant-garde to political activism

"We artists have to paint : art created during the war and the Holocaust

Producing art for partisans : creativity between ideology and survival.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rajner, Mirjam, 1959- Fragile images

ISBN:

9789004408852

9004408851

OCLC:

1104066930

Publisher Number:

99982341811