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Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century » (New Edition)

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Authors: Ori Z. Soltes
ISBN-13: 9781584650492, ISBN-10: 1584650494
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Ori Z. Soltes

ORI Z. SOLTES teaches in the Theology and Fine Arts Departments at Georgetown University. He is former Director and Curator of the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum and the author of over 90 articles, essays and catalogues on a range of subjects, including art history, literature, and linguistics.

Book Synopsis

The first full-color book to examine Jewish American painters and their works.

In this informative and insightful book...Soltes applies a keen eye and perceptive esthetic sensibility to brief essays about both native-born and immigrant artists who have explored subjects ranging from immigration and urban society to the Holocaust and to spiritual yearnings.

Table of Contents

Prefaceix
Introduction1
The Problem of Jewish Art2
Jewish Artists after Emancipation3
Jewish Artists in the "Paris School"7
The Tum to America18
Part I.Immigrants and Artists: Finding and Fixing A Place21
City Life and Social Realism22
Precisionism, Magic Realism, and Political Commentary42
Part II.Between Representation and Abstraction51
The Ten and Others52
Abstract Expressionism61
From Chromaticism to Color Field Painting70
Intellect and Emotion78
Conceptual and Pop Art83
Part III.Toward Century's End91
Social Commentary and Spiritual Seeking92
The Return to the Holocaust98
An Explosion of Women Artists110
Fixing and Blurring Boundaries117
Shaping and Reshaping the Questions125
Notes147
Index159

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