Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art

Offers a new criticism of contemporary Jewish art, showing how Jewish artists bring their use of action and process to Jewish ideas. Bringing together exhibition catalogs, midrashic texts, and artist statements, this book addresses abstraction, conceptual art, performance art, and other styles that do not rely on imagery for meaning.

About the author

Ben Schachter is Professor of Fine Arts at Saint Vincent College. He is the author of Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity.

Summary

Offers a new criticism of contemporary Jewish art, showing how Jewish artists bring their use of action and process to Jewish ideas. Bringing together exhibition catalogs, midrashic texts, and artist statements, this book addresses abstraction, conceptual art, performance art, and other styles that do not rely on imagery for meaning.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Schachter, Ben (Saint Vincent College) Schachter
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2017
• EAN: 9780271079127
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07912-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Dimyonot; Dimyonot
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, ART / Popular Culture, ART / Folk & Outsider Art, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Naive Art, Judaism: worship, rites & ceremonies