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Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation - Women in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German Fin de Siècle (Paperback)
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Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation - Women in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German Fin de Siècle (Paperback)
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Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important
Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator,
photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major
Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth
scholarly research and analysis of Lilien’s work available in
English, making this book an important contribution to historical
and art-historical scholarship. Concentrating mainly on his
illustrations for journals and books, Lynne Swarts acknowledges the
importance of Lilien’s groundbreaking male iconography in Zionist
art, but is the first to examine Lilien’s complex and nuanced
depiction of women, which comprised a major dimension of his work.
Lilien’s female images offer a compelling glimpse of an
alternate, independent and often sexually liberated modern Jewish
woman, a portrayal that often eluded the Zionist imagination. Using
an interdisciplinary approach to integrate intellectual and
cultural history with issues of gender, Jewish history and visual
culture, Swarts also explores the important fin de siècle tensions
between European and Oriental expressions of Jewish femininity. The
work demonstrates that Lilien was not a minor figure in the
European art scene, but a major figure whose work needs re-reading
in light of his cosmopolitan and national artistic genius.
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