Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 4440657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahar |
| FAMILY NAME | Marnin-Distelfeld |
| SIGNATURE | MARNIN-DISTELFELD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zefat Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9112-9592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Between beauty and blood: The red Anemone and Poppy in shared visual landscapes
This article examines the red Anemone and Poppy as culturally charged forms within Israeli and Palestinian visual culture, tracing the formation and transformation of their meanings from the early twentieth century to the present. These wildflowers are approached as visual symbols and also as dynamic cultural objects embedded in processes of circulation, material engagement, and affect. The analysis examines a wide range of media, including fine …
Father-daughter relationships reflected in Druze women artists' works
Dialogue and challenge: Wildflowers in contemporary Israeli art mirrored in history
This article looks at images of wildflowers in contemporary Israeli art and their evolution in Israel's visual cultural. Wildflowers were regarded a part of the Zionist ideology in strengthening the connection of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel. They served as "cultural objects' that contributed to shaping national identity by appearing on stamps, bank notes, in official Zionist publications and in botanical guidebooks. The article examin…
Creativity as an Experience and as a Complexity: Visual-Narrative Research of the Artworks of Tsipy Amos Goldstein
This article focuses on the work Seven Private Skies (initiated in 2009) by the Israeli artist, Tsipy Amos Goldstein. This is a series of large panels on which the artist has been painting and embroidering for fourteen years as her main occupation. The aim of the study was to establish the meanings inherent in the work, which is a kind of multi-layered cryptograph, while characterizing it in terms of creativity. The research method combined visua…
An Unheard Voice: The Paintings of Zohar Tal Inbar, a Mother Looking at Her Soldier Son
This study focuses on a series— Of Beautiful Arms —by Israeli artist Zohar Tal Inbar. The paintings were created a few years after the artist’s son was released from the army, diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It includes figurative paintings, most of them focusing on the body of a young man—a soldier. The methodology combines visual analysis of the paintings with interviews with the artist. Findings have shown that the series…
Advertisements as Cultural Texts: Looking at Homemakers and Mothers in Mandate Palestine
This article examines representations of homemakers and mothers occurring in ads appearing during Mandate Palestine. It is based on comprehensive research of about 150 ads, from dailies, women’s magazines, and manuals published in Hebrew at that time. In all ads, a feminine figure appears as the main character. The ads are analyzed, extracting the meanings inherent in them regarding the role and social status of the Hebrew homemaker, as a key to …
Leaving Home: Decoding Art Projects of Female Arab-Palestinian Students
This article examines projects of female Arab-Palestinian college art students in the Israeli periphery. The projects focus on the students’ living environment, domestic space, and the transition from their childhood home to the new post-marriage house. They experience this transition, which usually also means leaving the familiar environment of their village of origin for another place, as a significant step that involves mixed feelings of self-…
In the liveliest place, my mother's bosom, there was death’ – mother-daughter relationships in the work of Rachel Nemesh, Second-Generation Holocaust survivor
This article focuses on the artwork of Israeli artist, Rachel Nemesh, a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor. The assemblage to be discussed was exhibited in her solo exhibition, One Flesh, in 2020. The corpus analysis will be divided into four themes: (a) The Big Mother – works describing the elderly mother of Nemesh in a monumental manner; (b) Pieta versions – works focusing on bodily scenes of mother and daughter closely tangled; (c) Body-Part…
An Inner Voice Liberated
This article examines the works of Israeli woman artist Lilian Weisberger, who creates girlhood images that look naive at first glance but are nonetheless multilayered and radical. This examination of Weisberger’s girlhood images is done here for the first time. Applying the bricolage methodology, the investigation of her artwork is based on a visual analysis, in-depth interviews with Weisberger, and feminist theories relevant to girlhood studies…
Serious Leisure Visual Artists in Israel: Challenging Amateurism
“We Were Once”—A Quartets Game Aiming at Learning History Through Playing
This article deals with the card game “We Were Once” featuring the history of Kiryat Tivon. The game’s components embody values expected to promote a sense of significance toward history among its young players. It consists of archival photos divided into 10 quartets: founders, mayors, beginnings, significant women, public buildings, first roads, events, children in schools, posters, and the reservoir. The game was designed to serve as a platform…
“I Am Not an Artist, I Make Art”: Amateurish Artists in Israel and the Sense of Creativity
This study deals with self-taught visual artists who are considered “amateurish” by the establishment of the Memorial Center in Kiryat Tiv’on, Israel, where they have exhibit their artwork. We will try to figure out both the explicit and implicit characteristics of “amateurish” artists, and challenge the supposed linkage between amateurism and lack of creativity. The methodology applied combines a sociological point of view, drawing on in-depth i…
Why Draw Flowers
Botanical art and illustration, presented alongside scientific descriptions, were at the heart of Jewish national projects during the British Mandate in Palestine-Israel and following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Looking back, we recognised three prominent women artists who contributed widely to many such botanical projects: Ruth Koppel, Esther Huber and Bracha Avigad. This study aims to investigate the plant images these thr…
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Why Draw Flowers
Botanical art and illustration, presented alongside scientific descriptions, were at the heart of Jewish national projects during the British Mandate in Palestine-Israel and following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Looking back, we recognised three prominent women artists who contributed widely to many such botanical projects: Ruth Koppel, Esther Huber and Bracha Avigad. This study aims to investigate the plant images these thr…
Serious Leisure Visual Artists in Israel: Challenging Amateurism
“We Were Once”—A Quartets Game Aiming at Learning History Through Playing
This article deals with the card game “We Were Once” featuring the history of Kiryat Tivon. The game’s components embody values expected to promote a sense of significance toward history among its young players. It consists of archival photos divided into 10 quartets: founders, mayors, beginnings, significant women, public buildings, first roads, events, children in schools, posters, and the reservoir. The game was designed to serve as a platform…
“I Am Not an Artist, I Make Art”: Amateurish Artists in Israel and the Sense of Creativity
This study deals with self-taught visual artists who are considered “amateurish” by the establishment of the Memorial Center in Kiryat Tiv’on, Israel, where they have exhibit their artwork. We will try to figure out both the explicit and implicit characteristics of “amateurish” artists, and challenge the supposed linkage between amateurism and lack of creativity. The methodology applied combines a sociological point of view, drawing on in-depth i…
Leaving Home: Decoding Art Projects of Female Arab-Palestinian Students
This article examines projects of female Arab-Palestinian college art students in the Israeli periphery. The projects focus on the students’ living environment, domestic space, and the transition from their childhood home to the new post-marriage house. They experience this transition, which usually also means leaving the familiar environment of their village of origin for another place, as a significant step that involves mixed feelings of self-…
In the liveliest place, my mother's bosom, there was death’ – mother-daughter relationships in the work of Rachel Nemesh, Second-Generation Holocaust survivor
This article focuses on the artwork of Israeli artist, Rachel Nemesh, a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor. The assemblage to be discussed was exhibited in her solo exhibition, One Flesh, in 2020. The corpus analysis will be divided into four themes: (a) The Big Mother – works describing the elderly mother of Nemesh in a monumental manner; (b) Pieta versions – works focusing on bodily scenes of mother and daughter closely tangled; (c) Body-Part…
An Inner Voice Liberated
This article examines the works of Israeli woman artist Lilian Weisberger, who creates girlhood images that look naive at first glance but are nonetheless multilayered and radical. This examination of Weisberger’s girlhood images is done here for the first time. Applying the bricolage methodology, the investigation of her artwork is based on a visual analysis, in-depth interviews with Weisberger, and feminist theories relevant to girlhood studies…
Advertisements as Cultural Texts: Looking at Homemakers and Mothers in Mandate Palestine
This article examines representations of homemakers and mothers occurring in ads appearing during Mandate Palestine. It is based on comprehensive research of about 150 ads, from dailies, women’s magazines, and manuals published in Hebrew at that time. In all ads, a feminine figure appears as the main character. The ads are analyzed, extracting the meanings inherent in them regarding the role and social status of the Hebrew homemaker, as a key to …
Creativity as an Experience and as a Complexity: Visual-Narrative Research of the Artworks of Tsipy Amos Goldstein
This article focuses on the work Seven Private Skies (initiated in 2009) by the Israeli artist, Tsipy Amos Goldstein. This is a series of large panels on which the artist has been painting and embroidering for fourteen years as her main occupation. The aim of the study was to establish the meanings inherent in the work, which is a kind of multi-layered cryptograph, while characterizing it in terms of creativity. The research method combined visua…
An Unheard Voice: The Paintings of Zohar Tal Inbar, a Mother Looking at Her Soldier Son
This study focuses on a series— Of Beautiful Arms —by Israeli artist Zohar Tal Inbar. The paintings were created a few years after the artist’s son was released from the army, diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It includes figurative paintings, most of them focusing on the body of a young man—a soldier. The methodology combines visual analysis of the paintings with interviews with the artist. Findings have shown that the series…
Dialogue and challenge: Wildflowers in contemporary Israeli art mirrored in history
This article looks at images of wildflowers in contemporary Israeli art and their evolution in Israel's visual cultural. Wildflowers were regarded a part of the Zionist ideology in strengthening the connection of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel. They served as "cultural objects' that contributed to shaping national identity by appearing on stamps, bank notes, in official Zionist publications and in botanical guidebooks. The article examin…
Between beauty and blood: The red Anemone and Poppy in shared visual landscapes
This article examines the red Anemone and Poppy as culturally charged forms within Israeli and Palestinian visual culture, tracing the formation and transformation of their meanings from the early twentieth century to the present. These wildflowers are approached as visual symbols and also as dynamic cultural objects embedded in processes of circulation, material engagement, and affect. The analysis examines a wide range of media, including fine …
Father-daughter relationships reflected in Druze women artists' works
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