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Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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Jewish art and visual culture—art made by Jews about Jews—in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting by Ken Aptekar entitled Albert: Used to Be Abraham, a double portrait of a man, which serves to illustrate Zemel's conception of the doubleness of Jewish diasporic art. She considers two interwar photographers, Alter Kacyzne and Moshe Vorobeichic; images by the Polish writer Bruno Schulz; the pre- and postwar photographs of Roman Vishniac; the figure of the Jewish mother in postwar popular culture (Molly Goldberg); and works by R. B. Kitaj, Ben Katchor, and Vera Frenkel that explore Jewish identity in a postmodern environment.
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In Carol Zemel''s insightful reinterpretation of Van Gogh''s work and career, the artist is seen as a determined modern professional instead of the tortured romantic hero that legend has given us. Zemel''s fresh approach emphasizes the utopian idealism that infused both Van Gogh''s life and his pictures. She looks at the artist''s career from 1882 to 1890 through six utopian projects or professional schemes, each embodying a specific societal crisis for Van Gogh''s generation: women and sexuality, the rural artisan, republican citizenry, professional identity, the burgeoning art market, and the construction of a modern rural ideal. Zemel reveals how each endeavor, as Van Gogh treated it, offered a vision of utopian possibility. She also analyzes broader historical problems encountered by all avant-garde artists of the late nineteenth century. Zemel carefully examines Van Gogh''s letters and work and also draws from municipal archives, local histories, nineteenth-century literature, and contemporaneous criticism. Her handsomely illustrated book, essential reading for art historians and scholars of late-nineteenth-century history and French studies, will also captivate anyone interested in Vincent van Gogh.This title was originally published in 1997. In Carol Zemel''s insightful reinterpretation of Van Gogh''s work and career, the artist is seen as a determined modern professional instead of the tortured romantic hero that legend has given us. Zemel''s fresh approach emphasizes the utopian idealism that