The life and times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel : American sculptor, Arcadian knight / / Peter Adam Nash
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Nash Peter Adam
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| Titolo: |
The life and times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel : American sculptor, Arcadian knight / / Peter Adam Nash
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 730.92 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sculptors - United States |
| Jewish artists - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter One: Spanish Roots; Chapter Two: Youth and War; Chapter Three: Europe: The Awakening; Chapter Four: "Ecco Roma"; Chapter Five: The Baths of Diocletian; Chapter Six: Swarming Beliefs and Causes; Chapter Seven: Against the Tide; Chapter Eight: Trials and Tribulations; Chapter Nine: The Final Years; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This first book-length of Moses Ezekiel this book examines the life and historical context of the once celebrated, now little-known Jewish-American sculptor. His life is a fascinating study in nineteenth-century art and sculpture, nineteenth-century Germany and Italy (especially Rome), Sephardic Jewish history and attitudes, the American Civil War, the tension in art between classicism and modernism, and nineteenth-century cosmopolitanism. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The life and times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel |
| ISBN: | 1-61147-672-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821271203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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