Authors: Ori Z. Soltes
ISBN-13: 9781584650492, ISBN-10: 1584650494
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: New Edition
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.
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.
Preface | ix | |
Introduction | 1 | |
The Problem of Jewish Art | 2 | |
Jewish Artists after Emancipation | 3 | |
Jewish Artists in the "Paris School" | 7 | |
The Tum to America | 18 | |
Part I. | Immigrants and Artists: Finding and Fixing A Place | 21 |
City Life and Social Realism | 22 | |
Precisionism, Magic Realism, and Political Commentary | 42 | |
Part II. | Between Representation and Abstraction | 51 |
The Ten and Others | 52 | |
Abstract Expressionism | 61 | |
From Chromaticism to Color Field Painting | 70 | |
Intellect and Emotion | 78 | |
Conceptual and Pop Art | 83 | |
Part III. | Toward Century's End | 91 |
Social Commentary and Spiritual Seeking | 92 | |
The Return to the Holocaust | 98 | |
An Explosion of Women Artists | 110 | |
Fixing and Blurring Boundaries | 117 | |
Shaping and Reshaping the Questions | 125 | |
Notes | 147 | |
Index | 159 |