Art in Zion: The Genesis of National Art in Jewish Palestine (Routledgecurzon Jewish Studies Series)

✍ Scribed by Dr Dalia Manor

Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 279
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Art in Zion deals with the link between art and national ideology and specifically between the artistic activity that emerged in Jewish Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century and the Zionist movement. In order to examine the development of national art in Jewish Palestine, the book focuses on direct and indirect expressions of Zionist ideology in the artistic activity in the yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine). In particular, the book explores two major phases in the early development of Jewish art in Palestine: the activity of the Bezalel School of Art and Crafts, and the emergence during the 1920s of a group of artists known as the Modernists.

✦ Table of Contents

Book cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
List of illustrations......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
Part I: Bezalel and the myth of origin of Israeli art......Page 29
1. Ideological background......Page 31
2. Boris Schatz, founder of Bezalel......Page 39
3. The Bezalel Institute......Page 47
4. The iconography of Bezalel art......Page 61
5. A‘Hebrew style’......Page 90
Part II: Art for the nation......Page 94
6. Beginnings in Romania......Page 96
7. Rubin in Palestine......Page 110
Part III: The Modernists of the 1920s......Page 128
8. A view from afar......Page 130
9. Orientalism, Primitivism and folklore......Page 149
10. Art and ideas......Page 187
Conclusion......Page 204
Appendix A......Page 209
Appendix B......Page 211
Notes......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 257
Index......Page 271

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