Imagining Jewish Art

What does modern Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art in Biblical illustrations and other traditional subjects, Rosen sets out to discover Jewishness in unlikely places. How, he asks, have modern Jewish painter explored their Jewish identity using an artistic past which is - by and large - non-Jewish? In this new book we encounter some of the great works of Western art history through Jewish eyes. We see Matthias Grünewalde's Isenheim Altarpiece re-imagined by Marc Chagall (1887-1985), traces of Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca in Philip Guston (1913-1980), and images by Diego Velázquez and Paul Cézanne studiously reworked by R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007). This highly comparative study draws on theological, philosophical and literary sources from Franz Rosenzweig to Franz Kafka and Philip Roth. Rosen deepens our understanding not only of Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj but also of how art might serve as a key resource for rethinking such fundamental Jewish concepts as family, tradition, and homeland. Book jacket.

• | Author: Aaron Rosen
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 140 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367602547
• | ISBN-13: 9780367602543