Jewish Icons - Art and Society in Modern Europe (Hardcover, New)

With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, ceremonial art, modern Jewish painting and sculpture, political broadsides, monuments, medals, and memorabilia. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 1998
First published:	May 1998
Authors:	Richard I. Cohen
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	382
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-20545-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-20545-6
Barcode:	9780520205451

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