The House of Fragile Things

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252544
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The House of Fragile Things by : James McAuley

Download or read book The House of Fragile Things written by James McAuley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them.

Afterlives

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ISBN 13 : 9780300250701
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis Afterlives by : Darsie Alexander

Download or read book Afterlives written by Darsie Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly original exploration of the profound impact of World War II on how we understand the art that survived it By the end of World War II an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books had been seized from their owners by Nazi forces; many were destroyed. The artworks and cultural artifacts that survived have traumatic, layered histories. This book traces the biographies of these objects--including paintings, sculpture, and Judaica--their rescue in the aftermath of the war, and their afterlives in museums and private collections and in our cultural understanding. In examining how this history affects the way we view these works, scholars discuss the moral and aesthetic implications of maintaining the association between the works and their place within the brutality of the Holocaust--or, conversely, the implications of ignoring this history. Afterlives offers a thought-provoking investigation of the unique ability of art and artifacts to bear witness to historical events. With rarely seen archival photographs and with contributions by the contemporary artists Maria Eichhorn, Hadar Gad, Dor Guez, and Lisa Oppenheim, this catalogue illuminates the study of a difficult and still-urgent subject, with many parallels to today's crises of art in war.

Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-century America

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Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271059839
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (598 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-century America by : Samantha Baskind

Download or read book Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-century America written by Samantha Baskind and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the works of five major American Jewish artists: Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj. Focuses on the use of imagery influenced by the Bible.

Belonging and Betrayal

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ISBN 13 : 9781684580569
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Belonging and Betrayal by : Charles Dellheim

Download or read book Belonging and Betrayal written by Charles Dellheim and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. In Belonging and Betrayal, distinguished historian Charles Dellheim tells the story of the rise and fall of a small number of Jews, individuals, and families, who were merchants and connoisseurs as well as dealers and collectors of fine art. They competed and cooperated at various times and operated more often than not on both sides of the Atlantic. The protagonists of this story took a leading part in the critical transformations that shook the art world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the great migration of Old Master paintings from Europe to the United States; and the eventual triumph of modern art as Jewish dealers became the modernists' champions. The story begins with the entry of Jewish dealers into the art world in the late nineteenth century and ends with the Nazi plunder of their collections. Along the way, the narrative takes us into a variety of European capitals--Paris, London, Berlin, and Vienna--as well as American cities, notably Boston and New York. It sets the protagonists' stories against the backdrop of the broader changes that affected their fortunes and transformed art and society: The gradual opening of high culture, the dynamics of assimilation, acculturation, and antisemitism, the decline of the landed classes, the ascent of a new capitalist elite, the cultural impact of the "Great War," and the Nazi war against the Jews.

A History of Jewish Art

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Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Jewish Art by : Franz Landsberger

Download or read book A History of Jewish Art written by Franz Landsberger and published by Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost Lives, Lost Art

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Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865652637
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)

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Book Synopsis Lost Lives, Lost Art by : Melissa Muller

Download or read book Lost Lives, Lost Art written by Melissa Muller and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer--distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instru­ments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to exile or death in Hitler's concentration camps. Here, after years of meticulous research, Melissa Müller (Anne Frank: The Biography) and Monika Tatzkow (Nazi Looted Art) present the tragic, compelling stories of 15 Jewish collectors, the dispersal of their extraordinary collections through forced sale and/or confiscation, and the ongoing efforts of their heirs to recover their inheritance. For every victory in the effort to return these works to their rightful heirs, there are daunting defeats and long court battles. This real-life legal thriller follows works by Rembrandt, Klimt, Pissarro, Kandinsky, and others. Praise for Lost Lives, Lost Art: "A heartbreaking and enthralling story of the brutal and mindless Nazi destruction of a singularly cultivated caste of rich German and Austrian Jews and the pillage of their great art collections: a world that was lost and could never be recreated." ~ Louis Begley "Each chapter focuses on a single collector. . . the adulatory profiles [are] matched with an attractive layout and an abundance of well-selected images." ~ Wall Street Journal "The book is meticulously researched, brilliantly and dispassionately written, and is in all likelihood a game changer in the world of art, art provenance, and art restitution that will resound for years to come."~ ForeWord Reviews "Richly illustrated with excellent art reproductions and family photographs, this is a solid addition to works on Nazi art plundering and the world of art restitution, ownership, and property rights. This will be of great interest to readers wanting to know more about upper-class Austrian and German Jews. Recommended." ~ Library Journal

Treasures of Jewish Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis Treasures of Jewish Art by : Jacobo Furman

Download or read book Treasures of Jewish Art written by Jacobo Furman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art and Ceremony in Jewish Life

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Publisher : Pindar Press
ISBN 13 : 1915837200
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and Ceremony in Jewish Life by : Vivian B. Mann

Download or read book Art and Ceremony in Jewish Life written by Vivian B. Mann and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since turning to the field of Jewish art over twenty years ago, Vivian Mann has concentrated on investigating Jewish ceremonial art within the dual contexts of Jewish law, and the history of decorative arts in general, including the ceremonial art made for the Church and the Mosque. The introduction to this volume considers classic rabbinic attitudes toward art and its relationship to spirituality. The remaining essays are divided into three groups: the first concerns medieval ceremonial art; the second, articles on the Jewish art of Muslim lands beginning with the early Middle Ages; and the third consists of essays on Judaica during the periods of the Renaissance and rococo.

Jewish Art

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ISBN 13 : 9781861898029
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Art by : Samantha Baskind

Download or read book Jewish Art written by Samantha Baskind and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering nearly two centuries, this is a comprehensive account of the art made by Jews across Europe, America and Israel. The book discusses many issues including the shifting Jewish identity, the effects of the diaspora, anti-Semitism and the distinctive character of images made within a Christian.

Jewish Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
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Book Synopsis Jewish Art by : Cecil Roth

Download or read book Jewish Art written by Cecil Roth and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Convert’s Tale

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674237536
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis A Convert’s Tale by : Tamar Herzig

Download or read book A Convert’s Tale written by Tamar Herzig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.

Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253040566
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna by : Caroline A Kita

Download or read book Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna written by Caroline A Kita and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-19th century, the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner sparked an impulse toward German cultural renewal and social change that drew on religious myth, metaphysics, and spiritualism. The only problem was that their works were deeply antisemitic and entangled with claims that Jews were incapable of creating compassionate art. By looking at the works of Jewish composers and writers who contributed to a lively and robust biblical theatre in fin de siècle Vienna, Caroline A. Kita shows how they reimagined myths of the Old Testament to offer new aesthetic and ethical views of compassion. These Jewish artists, including Gustav Mahler, Siegfried Lipiner, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Stefan Zweig, and Arnold Schoenberg, reimagined biblical stories through the lens of the modern Jewish subject to plead for justice and compassion toward the Jewish community. By tracing responses to antisemitic discourses of compassion, Kita reflects on the explicitly and increasingly troubled political and social dynamics at the end of the Habsburg Empire.

Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust

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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813524047
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust by : Matthew Baigell

Download or read book Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust written by Matthew Baigell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish themes in American art were not very visible until the last two decades, although many famous twentieth-century artists and critics were and are Jewish. Few artists responded openly to the Holocaust until the 1960s, when it finally began to act as a galvanizing force, allowing Jewish-American artists to express their Jewish identity in their work. Baigell describes how artists initially deflected their responses into abstract forms or by invoking biblical and traditional figures and then in more recent decades confronted directly Holocaust imagery and memory. He traces the development of artistic work from the late 1930s to the present in a moving study of a long overlooked topic in the history of American art.

Jewish Identity in American Art

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815636755
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Identity in American Art by : Matthew Baigell

Download or read book Jewish Identity in American Art written by Matthew Baigell and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challenge religious themes in their work. These Jewish artists felt comfortable as assimilated Americans yet developed an overwhelming desire to explore their cultural and religious heritage. They became the first generation willing to take risks with their material and to discover new ways to create art with Jewish religious content. In his most recent book, Baigell explores the art and influences of eleven artists who enlarged the parameters of Jewish American art through their varied approaches to subject matter, to feminist concerns, and to finding contemporary relevance in the ancient texts. Along with detailed essays on each artist, the book includes nearly one hundred stunning illustrations that testify to the beauty, depth, and importance of the paintings and sculptures produced by this groundbreaking generation of artists.

Jewish Art: an Illustrated History

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Publisher : Vallentine Mitchell
ISBN 13 : 9780853031215
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Art: an Illustrated History by : Cecil Roth

Download or read book Jewish Art: an Illustrated History written by Cecil Roth and published by Vallentine Mitchell. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Toward a Hot Jew

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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606999818
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Toward a Hot Jew by : Miriam Libicki

Download or read book Toward a Hot Jew written by Miriam Libicki and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first collection of graphic essays, Miriam Libicki investigates what it means globally and culturally to be Jewish, dating from her time in the Israeli military to her tenure as an art professor. Toward a Hot Jew is a new high watermark in autobiographical comics and shows Miriam Libicki as a powerful witness to history in the tradition of Martjane Satrapi and Joe Sacco.

Jewish Identity in Modern Art History

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520213043
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Identity in Modern Art History by : Catherine M. Soussloff

Download or read book Jewish Identity in Modern Art History written by Catherine M. Soussloff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-03-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book asks all the right questions about society, culture, religion and art.