Jewish Art in America

An Introduction

Jewish Art in America

An Introduction

Matthew Baigell (Author)

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In this first book-length study of Jewish art in America, Matthew Baigell explores works from the early settlers of America to the present. It concentrates on exploring and examining Jewish subject matter employed by artists as they illustrated aspects of their religious and ethnic heritage and as they responded to major events over the decades, including the Great Migration, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel, as well as the dispersal of Jewish artists around the country and the rise of feminism and spiritualism in the late-twentieth century.

Subjects include genre scenes of "the Jewish street," religious and spiritual themes derived from the Bible and the Kabbalah, and images that record the artists' participation in and witnessing of major events in their lifetimes. The author also considers the often asked questions: Is there a Jewish art? and, Is there a single Jewish Experience?

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Until 1920, Preliminaries and Beginnings
Chapter 4 The 1920s, Settling In
Chapter 5 The 1930s, Social Issues
Chapter 6 The 1940s, The Holocaust Years and After
Chapter 7 The 1950s and After, The Older Generation
Chapter 8 The 1950s and After, The Younger Generation
Chapter 9 The 1970s and After, Representative Figures
Chapter 10 The 1970s and After, Later Holocaust Responses
Chapter 11 The 1970s and After, Spiritualism
Chapter 12 The 1970s and After, Feminism
Chapter 13 Conclusion
Chapter 14 Works Cited
Chapter 15 Index

Product details

Published	Nov 27 2006
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	280
ISBN	9780742546400
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Matthew Baigell

A pioneer in the field of Jewish American art, Baigell has fittingly written the first full-length introduction on the subject. A welcome and much-needed contribution.

Samantha Baskind, Cleveland State University
What Matthew Baigell is proposing is something quite unique and certainly cutting edge: the presentation that there is a Jewish art in America which is distinct to its practitioners and which does not necessarily conform to European conceptions of Jews and Jewish art and which at the same time in America is both part of the mainstream and a unique stream unto itself. Very fresh and in some ways radical.

Seth Wolitz, Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Texas at Austin
In this first book-length study of Jewish art in America, Matthew Baigell explores works from the early settlers of America to the present. Baigell concentrates on Jewish subject matter employed by artists as they illustrated aspects of their religious and ethnic heritage and as they responded to major events over the decades, including the Great Migration, Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel, as well as the dispersal of Jewish artists around the country and the rise of feminism and spiritualism in the late-20th century.

Jewish Book World
The book's...merit lies in its useful documentation of the work of artists, some of them like Max Weber or Ben Shahn, reasonably well known, but in many instances much less familiar and perhaps worthy of greater attention that they have received.

W. Cahn, emeritus, Yale University, Choice Reviews
[Baigell] provides an excellent background for understanding the various contexts in which American Jews, including artists, have operated....[a] worthy addition to one's library.

American Jewish History
Given his unmatched expertise in Jewish American art, and his experience as an author of general narrative history in the field of American art, I could think of no one more suited to the task of putting together the a textbook on Jewish American Art history than Matthew Baigell.

Daniel Morris, Professor of English and Jewish Studies, Purdue University