Jewish Identity in American Art - A Golden Age Since the 1970s

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Baigell is professor emeritus in the department of art history at Rutgers University. He is the author, editor, and coeditor of over twenty books on American and Jewish American art. His most recent book is The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935. Klappentext ""Jewish Identity in American Art" is about the first Jewish American generation of artists who are both comfortable as assimilated Americans and who also respect and revere their religious heritage"-- Zusammenfassung Explores the art and influences of eleven artists who enlarged the parameters of Jewish American art through their varied approaches to subject matter! to feminist concerns! and to finding contemporary relevance in the ancient texts. Along with detailed essays on each artist! the book includes nearly one hundred stunning illustrations.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Baigell
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780815636854
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3685-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Judaic Traditions in Literatur; Judaic Traditions in LIterature, Music, and Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kunstgeschichte, Amerika, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Kunst, allgemein, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Jewish, History - General History, ART / American / General