Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture: Antisemitism, Assimilation, AffirmationRose-Carol Washton Long, Matthew Baigell, Milly Heyd UPNE, 2010 - 338 pages In modern western history, the cultural and social developments of modernism have long been associated with Jews. For conservative groups this has been a negative association: the perceived breakdown of traditional norms was blamed on Jewish influence in politics, society, and the arts. Throughout Europe, Jews were viewed as carriers of industrialized and cosmopolitan developments that threatened to undermine a cherished way of life. This anthology speaks to this issue through the lens of modernist visual production including paintings, posters, sculpture, and architecture. Essays by scholars from the U.S. and Israel confront the contradictory impulses that modernism's interaction with Jewish culture provoked. Discussing how religion, class, race, and political alignments were used to provide attacks on modern art, the scholars also comment on visual responses to anti-semitism and the mainstream success of artists in the U.S. and Israel since World War II. |
Contents
Tristan Tzara Shmuel Rosenstock | 8 |
Critical Responses to Modernism and Judaism | 17 |
Maquette for Légende de Saint Christophe 1920 | 35 |
German Antisemitism and the Historiography of Modern | 51 |
The Ecole Française versus the Ecole de Paris | 77 |
Dadas Dark Secret | 90 |
Ihr müsst sein auch wenn ihr nicht mehr seid | 116 |
Coded Representations | 143 |
George Grosz Otto Dix and the Philistines | 167 |
Models of Freedom | 220 |
Soviet Artists Jewish Images | 245 |
Between Response and Responsiveness | 273 |
of Europe 2005 | 291 |
Readymade Redux | 303 |
Contributors | 317 |
63 | 161 |
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