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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460381103321

Autore

Zemel Carol M.

Titolo

Looking Jewish : visual culture and modern diaspora / / Carol Zemel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-253-01542-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

704.03/924

Soggetti

Jewish art

Jews in art

Art, Modern - 20th century

Art, Modern - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Beyond the ghetto walls: shtetl to nation in photography by Alter Kacyzne and Moshe Vorobeichic -- Modern artist, modern Jew: Bruno Schulz's diasporas -- Z'chor! Roman Vishniac's photo-eulogy of Eastern European Jews -- Difference in diaspora: the Yiddishe mama, the Jewish mother, the Jewish princess, and their men -- Diasporic values in contemporary art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel.

Sommario/riassunto

Jewish art and visual culture-art made by Jews about Jews-in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting entitled Albert: Used to Be Abraham, a double portrait of a man, which serves to illustrate Zemel's conception of the doubleness of Jewish diasporic art. She considers two interwar photographers, Alter Kacyzne and Mos