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Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation
Women in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German Fin de Siècle
Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation
Women in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German Fin de Siècle
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Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator, photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth scholarly research and analysis of Lilien's work available in English, making this book an important contribution to historical and art-historical scholarship.
Concentrating mainly on his illustrations for journals and books, Lynne Swarts acknowledges the importance of Lilien's groundbreaking male iconography in Zionist art, but is the first to examine Lilien's complex and nuanced depiction of women, which comprised a major dimension of his work. Lilien's female images offer a compelling glimpse of an alternate, independent and often sexually liberated modern Jewish woman, a portrayal that often eluded the Zionist imagination. Using an interdisciplinary approach to integrate intellectual and cultural history with issues of gender, Jewish history and visual culture, Swarts also explores the important fin de siècle tensions between European and Oriental expressions of Jewish femininity. The work demonstrates that Lilien was not a minor figure in the European art scene, but a major figure whose work needs re-reading in light of his cosmopolitan and national artistic genius.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Ephraim Moses Lilien and His Oeuvre: Context and Contested Issues
Chapter Two: 'We Put All our Hope in Him': Lilien, Zionism and Male Aesthetics
Chapter Three: Boundaries and Borderlines: The 'New Woman' and the New Jewish Woman
Chapter Four: The Dangerous 'Other': Lilien's Femmes Fatales, Other Male Avant-garde Behaviour and Elsa Lasker-Schüler's Transgendered Vision
Chapter Five: Biblical Heroines, Biblical Illustrations and the Search for Meaning
Chapter Six: Ost und West, Zionism and the Construction of German Jewish Orientalism
Chapter Seven: The Exotic 'Other': Lilien's Oriental Beauties and a Jewish Oriental Voice?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 23 Jan 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781501336140 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 32 color and 125 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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