Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture: Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation
In modern western history, the cultural and social developments of modernism have long been associated with Jews. For conservative groups this has been a negative association: the perceived breakdown of traditional norms was blamed on Jewish influence in politics, society, and the arts. Throughout Europe, Jews were viewed as carriers of industrialized and cosmopolitan developments that threatened to undermine a cherished way of life.\ This anthology speaks to this issue through the lens of...
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A fascinating look at key aspects of visual culture in modern Jewish history
List of IllustrationsIntroduction 1I Critical Responses to Modernism and Judaism1 The Jew as Anti-Artist: Georges Sorel, Antisemitism, and the Aesthetics of Class Consciousness Mark Antliff Antliff, Mark 192 German Antisemitism and the Historiography of Modern Art: The Case of Julius Meier-Graefe, 1894-1905 Janne Gallen-Kallela-Siren Gallen-Kallela-Siren, Janne 513 The Ecole Francaise versus the Ecole de Paris: The Debate about the Status of Jewish Artists in Paris between the Wars Romy Golan Golan, Romy 774 Dada's Dark Secret Albert Boime Boime, Albert 905 "Ihr musst sein, auch wenn ihr nicht mehr seid": The Jewish Central Museum in Prague and Historical Memory in the Third Reich Dirk Rupnow Rupnow, Dirk 116II Coded Representations6 Identity and Interpretation: Reception of Toulouse-Lautrec's Reine de joie Poster in the 1890s Ruth Iskin Iskin, Ruth 1457 George Grosz, Otto Dix, and the Philistines: The German-Jewish Question in the Weimar Republic Rose-Carol Washton Long Long, Rose-Carol Washton 1678 Tristan Tzara / Shmuel Rosenstock: The Hidden/Overt Jewish Agenda Milly Heyd Heyd, Milly 1939 Models of Freedom: The Young Yiddish Group from Lodz, 1919-1921 Marek Bartelik Bartelik, Marek 22010 Soviet Artists, Jewish Images Matthew Baigell Baigell, Matthew 245III Affirmation11 Between Response and Responsiveness: On Michael Sgan-Cohen's Hinneni David Heyd Heyd, David 27312 Postwar Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. 28513 Readymade Redux: Once More the Jewish Museum Lisa Saltzman Saltzman, Lisa 303Contributors 317Index 319
\ From the Publisher"Even visual artists whose materials do not include text often signal the Jewishness of their work through their vocabularies: including images of a bearded hasid, a six-pointed star, or of Hebrew letters in paintings, sculptures, or architectural designs is the equivalent of having a character speak untrammeled mameloshn. Yet can't a Jew eschew such obvious symbols and instead somehow paint with a Jewish "accent"? Scholars tackle questions along these lines in Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture: Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation, a collection of essays that attempt to explain how those strange bedfellows, Jewishness and modernism, managed to get along."--Tablet Magazine\ "The collection is an ambitious undertaking in its breadth. . . which can--and hopefully will--inspire further studies and similar collaborations."--German Studies Review\ \ \
