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Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection
explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal,
geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity
formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural
uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how
ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political
context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience,
readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars
and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume
presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary
divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the
complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.
Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection
explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal,
geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity
formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural
uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how
ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political
context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience,
readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars
and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume
presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary
divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the
complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.
Luigi Pericle (1916-2001) was a rare talent-a self-taught
illustrator and painter, a man of letters, mystic, theosophist, and
intellectual whose work and legacy eludes any categorization. Under
his proper name Pericle Luigi Giovanetti he had great success as an
illustrator and cartoonist in the 1950s. His cartoons were
published worldwide in daily newspapers, such as the Washington
Post or Herald Tribune, as well as in satirical magazines like
Punch. His comic strip Max the Marmot, published in newspapers and
books, was hugely popular across Europe, the United States, and
Japan. In 1958, he turned to explore abstract expression through
painting and ink drawing. He quickly gained international
recognition as an artist and his paintings were exhibited in
gallery and museum shows in Britain and Switzerland during the
1960s. Yet recognition was not what he was looking for, and he
disappeared voluntarily from the art world to lead an increasingly
secluded life dedicated entirely to his art and writing. His home
Casa San Tomaso on the legendary Monte Verita in Ascona, in
southern Switzerland, offered ideal surroundings for an artist so
strongly drawn to spirituality. Luigi Pericle. Ad Astra, published
to coincide with a major exhibition at the MASI Museo d'arte della
Svizzera italiana in Lugano, offers a fresh look at how the
spiritual environment and tradition of Monte Verita influenced
Pericle as an artist and how Asian calligraphy and Zen Buddhism
were influential to his drawing practice. Moreover, the book
investigates Pericle's understanding of abstraction in art and his
own syncretism of modern mysticism. Text in English, German and
Italian.
The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka's graphic
output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings "The
figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves."-Lauren
Christensen, New York Times Book Review "A sensational new book
[that] reveals these hitherto hidden artworks for the first time. .
. . This valuable volume allows us to see how, for Kafka, word and
image walk arm in arm."-Benjamin Balint, Jewish Review of Books The
year 2019 brought a sensational discovery: hundreds of drawings by
the writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) were found in a private
collection that for decades had been kept under lock and key. Until
now, only a few of Kafka's drawings were widely known. Although
Kafka is renowned for his written work, his drawings are evidence
of what his literary executor Max Brod termed his "double talent."
Irresistible and full of fascinating figures, shifting from the
realistic to the fantastic, the grotesque, the uncanny, and the
carnivalesque, they illuminate a previously unknown side of the
quintessential modernist author. Kafka's drawings span his full
career, but he drew most intensively in his university years,
between 1901 and 1907. An entire booklet of drawings from this
period is among the many new discoveries, along with dozens of
loose sheets. Published for the first time in English, these newly
available materials are collected with his known works in a
complete catalogue raisonne of more than 240 illustrations,
reproduced in full color. Essays by Andreas Kilcher and Judith
Butler provide essential background for this lavish volume,
interpreting the drawings in their own right while also reconciling
their place in Kafka's larger oeuvre.
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