Reinventing Jewish art in the age of multiple modernities : Michail Grobman and the Leviathan group / Lola Kantor-Kazovsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kantor-Kazovsky, Lola, author.

Series:

Studia Judaeoslavica ; Volume 15.

Studia Judaeoslavica Series ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish art.

Grobman, Mikhail--Criticism and interpretation.

Grobman, Mikhail.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

Can studying an artist’s migration provide the key to unlocking a “global” history of art? The artistic biography of Michail Grobman and his group, which was active in Israel in the 1970s, open up this vital new perspective and analytical mode.

Can studying an artist’s migration enable the reconfiguration of art history in a new and “global” mode? Michail Grobman’s odyssey in search of a contemporary idiom of Jewish art led him to cross the borders of political blocs and to observe, absorb, and confront different patterns of modernism in his work. His provocative art, his rich archives and collections, his essays and personal diaries all reveal this complexity and open up a new perspective on post-World War II twentieth-century modernism – and on the interconnected functioning of its local models.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Across the East-West Divide: A Portrait of the Artist in Transcultural Perspective

Chapter 1 The Moscow Prelude: Visual Culture of the Cold War Era or the "Second Russian Avant-Garde"?

1 A Familiar Stranger: The Russian Encounter with Modern Art in the 1950s

2 The Impact of the American National Exhibition in Moscow: From Abstraction to Multiple Idioms

3 The "Cognitive Theory" of the Russian Avant-Garde and Its Role in the Formation of Unofficial Modern Art

4 Situating Unofficial Art Politically: Leviathan as a Symbol of Protest

Chapter 2 The Notion of Modern Jewish Art across Borders

1 Jewish Art and Modern Culture: A Complex Dialogue

2 Renunciation of Art as the "Hidden Tradition" of Jewish Modernism

3 The Conflict between Traditionalist and Modernist Jewish Art

4 The Revival of Art Theory in the USSR and Grobman's Debt to Malevich

5 The Genesis Myth and Suprematism in Grobman's Work of the 1960s

Chapter 3 Jewish vs. Israeli: Cultural Politics and Identity Controversy in the Work of the Leviathan Group

1 Shifting Self-Definitions in Local Art Scenes of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s

2 Grobman's Jerusalem Diary: The Jewish Artist as "Other" in the Israeli Art World

3 Grobman and Conceptual Art: "Renunciation" vs. "Dematerialization of the Art Object"

4 "To Stand on the Rock of the Word 'We'": The Art of the Leviathan Group

Chapter 4 Postmodern Variations: Too Jewish, Too Russian, Too Israeli

1 The Jewish Artist as Russian Poet and Israeli Serviceman, 1980s-1990s

2 Conclusion: Parallels, Conflicts, and Hybrids of the Patterns of Modernism in the Biography of a Single Artist

Appendices: Selected Texts by Michail Grobman

A Manifesto of Magical Symbolism

B Selected Theoretical Notes.

C First Manifesto of the Leviathan Group

D Second Manifesto of the Leviathan Group

E Third Manifesto of the Leviathan Group

F The Biblical Construction of the Square

G The Riddle of Levitan

H The Second Russian Avant-Garde

Bibliography

Plates

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Kantor-Kazovsky, Lola Reinventing Jewish Art in the Age of Multiple Modernities

ISBN:

9789004498150

900449815X

OCLC:

1354205887

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004498150 DOI