Imagining Jewish Art - Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj (Hardcover)

Short-listed for the Art and Christian Enquiry/Mercers International Book Award 2009: a book which makes an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts . What does modern Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art in Biblical illustrations and other traditional subjects, Rosen sets out to discover Jewishness in unlikely places. How, he asks, have modern Jewish painters explored their Jewish identity using an artistic past which is by and large non-Jewish? In this new book we encounter some of the great works of Western art history through Jewish eyes. We see Matthias Grunewald s Isenheim Altarpiece re-imagined by Marc Chagall (1887-1985), traces of Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca in Philip Guston (1913-1980), and images by Diego Velazquez and Paul Cezanne studiously reworked by R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007). This highly comparative study draws on theological, philosophical and literary sources from Franz Rosenzweig to Franz Kafka and Philip Roth. Rosen deepens our understanding not only of Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj but also of how art might serve as a key resource for rethinking such fundamental Jewish concepts as family, tradition, and homeland.

General

Imprint:	Legenda
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Aaron Rosen
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	140
ISBN-13:	978-1-906540-54-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Promotions
LSN:	1-906540-54-3
Barcode:	9781906540548

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