Jewish themes in American art were not very visible until the last two decades, although many famous twentieth-century artists and critics were and are Jewish. Few artists responded openly to the Holocaust until the 1960s, when it finally began to act as a galvanizing force, allowing Jewish-American...

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1. Verfasser:	Baigell, Matthew 1933- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.] Rutgers Univ. Press 1997
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1900-2000 Art américain - 20e siècle Artistes juifs - États-Unis Beeldende kunsten Holocaust Joden Shoah - Dans l'art Juden Judenvernichtung Kunst Art, American > 20th century Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art Jewish artists > United States USA
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Zusammenfassung:	Jewish themes in American art were not very visible until the last two decades, although many famous twentieth-century artists and critics were and are Jewish. Few artists responded openly to the Holocaust until the 1960s, when it finally began to act as a galvanizing force, allowing Jewish-American artists to express their Jewish identity in their work. Baigell describes how artists initially deflected their responses by using abstract forms or by invoking biblical and traditional figures and then in more recent decades confronted directly Holocaust imagery and memory. He traces the development of artistic work from the late 1930s to the present in a moving study of a long overlooked topic in the history of American art.
Beschreibung:	XI, 138, [32] S. Ill.
ISBN:	0813524040