The Nation Without Art Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art |
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| Author:
| Olin, Margaret |
| ISBN: | 978-1-280-42431-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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Looking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be no accident. As we see with disturbing clarity in this book, the discipline of art history even the first scholarly studies of Jewish works of art encourages the idea of the nonartistic Jew. Covering the last two centuries, The Nation without Art illuminates the rise of the paradigm of the non-artistic Jew and expresses the ways in which...
More DescriptionLooking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be no accident. As we see with disturbing clarity in this book, the discipline of art history even the first scholarly studies of Jewish works of art encourages the idea of the nonartistic Jew. Covering the last two centuries, The Nation without Art illuminates the rise of the paradigm of the non-artistic Jew and expresses the ways in which theorists, critics, and artists have sought to subvert, overcome, or work within it. Olin's work broadens our understanding of the relation of Jews to the visual image, critiques the nationalist, ethnocentric paradigms of current disciplines, and offers insight into the tenacious art historical discourses that thinkers must inhabit uncomfortably or escape with considerable difficulty."