Jewish Identity in Modern Art History

by Louis Kaplan

Book Overview

In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse. At the same time, these essays introduce to art history an understanding of the place of cultural identity in the production of scholarship. Contributors explore the meaning of Jewishness to writers and artists alike through such topics as exile, iconoclasm,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520213041
• ISBN13: 9780520213043
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Some interesting essays on an interesting topic A worthwhile academic collection

This is a sometimes interesting collection of academic articles on 'Jewish Identity in modern art history'. It is very far however from being ' comprehensive' and at times its choice of subjects seems quite arbitrary. It does not address in a full way the question of why so many of the great modern art- historians from Panofsky and Aby Warburg through Meir Shapiro and Moshe Barasch were of Jewish origin. Nor does it give sufficient mind and attention to the one 'modern Jewish artist' (Chagall) who it seems to me ( and to most others) towers above all other Jewish visual artists. Of most interest to me was the general introductory remarks by the editor Catherine Sousloff, and Larry Silver on Maurcy Gottlieb.