Secularizing the sacred: aspects of Israeli visual culture

"As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corp...

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Main Author: Mishori, Aleḳ (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2019]
Series:Brill's series in Jewish studies volume 65
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Online Access:UBG01
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Summary:"As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging "civil religion." Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood
Item Description:Literaturangaben
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 407 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9789004405271
DOI:10.1163/9789004405271