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14%OFFRose-Carol Washton Long (Ed.) - Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture - 9781584657958 - V9781584657958
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Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture

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Description for Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture Hardcover.
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 modernist visual production including paintings, posters, sculpture, and architecture. Essays by scholars from the U.S. and Israel confront the contradictory impulses that modernism's interaction with ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781584657958
SKU
V9781584657958
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About Rose-Carol Washton Long (Ed.)
ROSE-CAROL WASHTON LONG is professor of art history, The Graduate Center, CUNY. MATTHEW BAIGELL is emeritus professor of art history, Rutgers University. MILLY HEYD is Nicolas Landau Professor of Modern Art in the Department of the History of Art at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

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