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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450650003321

Autore

Manor Dalia

Titolo

Art in Zion : the genesis of modern national art in Jewish Palestine / / Dalia Manor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-36782-1

1-280-23196-3

9786610231966

0-203-61142-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon Jewish studies series

Disciplina

704.03/92405694

Soggetti

Jewish art - Palestine - 20th century

Zionism in art

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In association with The European Jewish Publication Society.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Ideological background; 2. Boris Schatz, founder of Bezalel; 3. The Bezalel Institute; 4. The iconography of Bezalel art; 5. A'Hebrew style'; 6. Beginnings in Romania; 7. Rubin in Palestine; 8. A view from afar; 9. Orientalism, Primitivism and folklore; 10. Art and ideas; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Art in Zion deals with the link between art and national ideology and specifically between the artistic activity that emerged in Jewish Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century and the Zionist movement. In order to examine the development of national art in Jewish Palestine, the book focuses on direct and indirect expressions of Zionist ideology in the artistic activity in the yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine). In particular, the book explores two major phases in the early development of Jewish art in Palestine: the activity of the Bezalel School of Ar