ISBN:
9781584657958
Language:
English
Pages:
338 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2009
Series Statement:
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
Series Statement:
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
Keywords:
Kunst
;
Juden
Abstract:
In modern western history, the cultural and social developments of modernism have long been associated with Jews. Usually this has been a negative association: the perceived breakdown of traditional norms was blamed on Jewish influence in politics, society and the arts. Throughout Europe, Jews were viewed as carriers of industrialized and cosmopolitan developments that threatened to undermine a cherished way of life. This anthology speaks to this issue through the lens of modernist visual production including the paintings, posters, sculpture, and architecture. Essays by scholars from the U.S. and Israel confront the contradictory impulses that modernism̷s interaction with Jewish culture provoked. Discussing how religion, class, race, and political alignments were used to provide attacks on modern art, the scholars also comment on visual response to anti-semitism and the mainstream success of artists in the U.S. and Israel since World War II.
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