The Nation Without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art

by Margaret Olin

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0803222335

ISBN13:9780803222335

Release Date:September 2007

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Length:308 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography History History & Criticism World

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