The Human Figure and Jewish Culture Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 208 in Publisher: Abbeville Press KEYNOTE: This wide-ranging. intellectually plane suddenly went study argues that artists of Jewish descent have been especially devoted to the human figure on account of their cultural heritage Abundantly illustrated in. full colour. In the twentieth century. the avant-garde movements promoted abstraction and formal experimentation in the visual arts. often dispensing with the human form altogether. Yet many artists of Jewish descent resisted this trend and continued to depict the human figure with sympathy and understanding. Few of them portrayed overtly Jewish themes. butas Eliane Strosberg argues in this thought-provoking volumetheir persistent devotion to the human figure was itself a reflection of their Jewishness. Though their individual styles were diverse. they all used the human figure as a means of ...Read More