Gender, orientalism and the Jewish nation : women in the work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German fin de siècle / Lynne M. Swarts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swarts, Lynne M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lilien, Ephraim Mose, 1874-1925--Criticism and interpretation.

Lilien, Ephraim Mose.

Lilien, Ephraim Mose, 1874-1925.

Women in art.

Femininity in art.

Orientalism in art.

Art and society--Germany--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Art and society--Germany--History--20th century.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Germany.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 328 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

"The first comprehensive study of E.M. Lilien's portrayals of the fin de siècle Jewish women in Zionist art"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"We put all our hope in him" : Lilien and His Oeuvre

"No longer art speaking but culture" : Lilien, Zionism, and Male Aesthetics

Boundaries and Borderlines : The "New Woman" and the New Jewish Woman

The Dangerous "Other" : Lilien's Femmes Fatales, Other Male Avant-garde Behavior, and Elsa Lasker-Schüler's Transgendered Vision

Biblical Heroines, Biblical Illustrations, and the Search for Meaning

Ost und West, Zionism, and the Construction of German Jewish Orientalism

The Exotic "Other" : Lilien's Oriental Beauties and a Jewish Oriental Voice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Swarts, Lynne M., Gender, orientalism and the jewish nation

ISBN:

9781501336140

1501336142

OCLC:

1105747011