02680nam 2200613 450 991046038110332120200520144314.00-253-01542-1(CKB)3710000000408975(EBL)2040252(SSID)ssj0001482317(PQKBManifestationID)11830764(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001482317(PQKBWorkID)11509648(PQKB)10070000(MiAaPQ)EBC2040252(OCoLC)908447869(MdBmJHUP)muse47575(Au-PeEL)EBL2040252(CaPaEBR)ebr11051527(EXLCZ)99371000000040897520141110h20152015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLooking Jewish visual culture and modern diaspora /Carol ZemelBloomington :Indiana University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (214 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-00598-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 MosJewish artJews in artArt, Modern20th centuryArt, Modern21st centuryElectronic books.Jewish art.Jews in art.Art, ModernArt, Modern704.03/924Zemel Carol M.983001MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460381103321Looking Jewish2243471UNINA