Looking Jewish: The State of Research on Modern Jewish Art

Samantha Baskind; Larry Silver

Looking Jewish: The State of Research on Modern Jewish Art

Samantha Baskind
, Larry Silver

University of Pennsylvania

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Abstract

An essay is presented on the scholarship of Jewish art from the 19th and 20th centuries. It discusses books on Jewish artists and what the authors describe as Jewish image-phobia including "The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual," by Kalman P. Bland, and "The Nation without Art," by Margaret Olin. The essay also examines scholarship on Jewish-American art and Jewish art and the Holocaust.

Original language	American English
Journal	Jewish Quarterly Review
Volume	101
State	Published - Oct 1 2011

Keywords

Jewish art
Modern art -- 19th century
Modern art -- 20th century
Jewish artists
American Jews
Holocaust

Disciplines

History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
Jewish Studies

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Looking Jewish: The State of Research on Modern Jewish Art

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