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The Nation without Art - Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art (Paperback)
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The Nation without Art - Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art (Paperback)
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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 Jew and expresses the ways in which theorists,
critics, and artists have sought to subvert, overcome, or work
within it. Case studies explore the Bezalel School of Arts and
Crafts in Jerusalem, whose efforts to use art to create a Jewish
nationality in Palestine raise important issues of national
identity, and the discovery in 1932 of the third-century Synagogue
of Dura Europos, a symbol for scholars struggling against the Third
Reich. Among those who supported or challenged concepts of Jewish
art, Margaret Olin considers the nineteenth-century rabbinical
scholar David Kaufmann, the philosopher Martin Buber, the critic
Clement Greenberg, and the filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Olin's work
broadens our understanding of the relation of Jews to the visual
image, critiques the nationalist, ethnocentric paradigms of current
disciplines, and offers insight into the tenacious art historical
discourses that thinkers must inhabit uncomfortably or escape with
considerable difficulty.
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