Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
By Ori Z. Soltes.
Description
From drawing to paintings to installations, visual art in the 20th-century US has been marked by an explosion of productivity by Jews. Their work reflects profound historical and cultural issues, such as what it means to be a Jewish artist in the western tradition of Christian art, and what it means, as Jews, to be painters of the specifically American experience. Ori Soltes focuses primarily on the work of 20th-century Jewish painters to explore themes ranging from the trials of immigration, depictions of urban life and politics, renderings of the Holocaust, and the reconstitution of Judai...
ISBN(s)
1584650494, 9781584650492
