Jewish identity in modern art history / edited by Catherine M. Soussloff.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Soussloff, Catherine M., editor.

Series:

• S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jewish arts.
• Arts, Modern--20th century.
• Jews--Identity.
• Jews in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse. At the same time, these essays introduce to art history an understanding of the place of cultural identity in the production of scholarship. Contributors explore the meaning of Jewishness to writers and artists alike through such topics as exile, iconoclasm, and anti-Semitism. Included are essays on Anselm Kiefer and Theodor Adorno; the effects of the Enlightenment; the rise of the nation-state; Nazi policies on art history; the criticism of Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, and Aby Warburg; the art of Judy Chicago, Eleanor Antin, and Morris Gottlieb; and Jewish patronage of German Expressionist art. Offering a new approach to the history of art in which the cultural identities of the makers and interpreters play a constitutive role, this collection begins an important and overdue dialogue that will have a significant impact on the fields of art history, Jewish studies, and cultural studies.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introducing Jewish Identity to Art History
• From Bezal'el to Max Liebermann Jewish Art in Nineteenth-Century Art-Historical Texts
• Anti-Semitism and Aniconism The Germanophone Requiem for Jewish Visual Art
• To Figure, or Not to Figure The Iconoclastic Proscription and Its Theoretical Legacy
• Jewish Identity in Art and History Maurycy Gottlieb as Early Jewish Artist
• Collecting and Collective Memory German Expressionist Art and Modern Jewish Identity
• Ethnic Notions and Feminist Strategies of the ig70s Some Work by Judy Chicago and Eleanor Antin
• Art History, German Jewish Identity, and the Emigration of Iconology
• Refranting the Self-Criticism Clement Greenberg's "Modernist Painting" in Light of Jewish Identity
• Meyer Schapiro's Jewish Unconscious
• Aby Warburg Forced Identity and "Cultural Science"
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Index

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780520920675
• 0520920678
• 9780585230085
• 0585230080

OCLC:

1153531704