Ahasuerus at the Easel: Jewish art and Jewish artists in Central and Eastern European modernism at the turn of the last century

This survey asks a seemingly simple question: Is there an affinity between the emergence of modern art and various Avant-Garde movements such as Russian Suprematism and Polish or Hungarian Constructivism around about the turn of the last century and the process of Jewish assimilation in the Habsburg...

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1. Verfasser: Sandqvist, Tom 1954- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
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Veröffentlicht: Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] Lang 2014
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Zusammenfassung:This survey asks a seemingly simple question: Is there an affinity between the emergence of modern art and various Avant-Garde movements such as Russian Suprematism and Polish or Hungarian Constructivism around about the turn of the last century and the process of Jewish assimilation in the Habsburg empire and Russian tsardom respectively? What about the possible connection between Hebraism, Jewish Messianism, Talmudic philosophy, and Kabbalistic speculations and the most radical, Utopian Avant-Garde movements of the region? Was Russian Cubo-Futurism, Suprematism, Productivism, Polish and Hung
Beschreibung:542 S. Ill. 210 mm x 148 mm
ISBN:3631651635
9783631651636