The Nation Without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art

by Margaret Olin

Book Overview

Looking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art--and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be no accident. As we see with disturbing clarity in this book, the discipline of art history--even the first scholarly studies of Jewish works of art--encourages the idea of the nonartistic Jew. Covering the last two centuries, The Nation without Art illuminates the rise of the paradigm of the non-artistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803222335
• ISBN13: 9780803222335
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"