Looking Jewish : visual culture and modern diaspora / Carol Zemel.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zemel, Carol, 1941-2021
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Jewish art.
Jews in art.
Art, Modern > 20th century.
Art, Modern > 21st century.
Art, Modern.
1900 - 2099
Physical Description:xii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Beyond the ghetto walls: shtetl to nation in photography by Alter Kacyzne and Moshe Vorobeichic
  • Modern artist, modern Jew: Bruno Schulz's diasporas
  • Z'chor! Roman Vishniac's photo-eulogy of Eastern European Jews
  • Difference in diaspora: the Yiddishe mama, the Jewish mother, the Jewish princess, and their men
  • Diasporic values in contemporary art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel.