Jewish Icons

Art and Society in Modern Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID19920262
AuthorsRichard Cohen (corresponding author)
EditorsRichard I Cohen
Year1998
Pages382
Publication date1998-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueJewish Icons (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520917910
OpenAlexW4389414671
ISBN9780520917910
Open LibraryOL29603286M
LanguageEN
Citations received23

With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, ceremonial art, modern Jewish painting and sculpture, political broadsides, monuments, medals, and memorabilia. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers

Archaeology · Art · Judaism · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Art and society · Art et société · Art, Architecture & Applied Arts · Beeldende kunsten · General · Identity · Intellectual life · Jewish art and symbolism · Jews · Jews in art · Jodendom · Juifs · Juifs dans l'art · Symbolen · Symbolisme juif · Vie intellectuelle · Visual Arts · Visual Arts - General · Visualisatie

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