One Hundred Years Of Art In Israel

Author : Gideon Ofrat
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years Of Art In Israel written by Gideon Ofrat and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1998-03-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume brings the rich legacy of Israeli art to a Western audience for the first time. Gideon Ofrat, Israel's preeminent curator, art critic, and art historian, traces the complete history of painting and sculpture in Israel, from nineteenth-century Jewish folk art in Ottoman Palestine to the kaleidoscopic postmodern patterns of Israeli art today. Contains over 350 illustrations, 185 in color.

Author : Alexandra Nocke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173242
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity written by Alexandra Nocke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new perspectives on Israel’s evolving Mediterranean identity, which centers around the longing to find a "natural" place in the region. It explores Mediterraneanism as reflected in popular music, literature, architecture, and daily life, and analyzes ways in which the notion comprises cultural identity and polical realities.

Author : Yigal Zalmona
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781848221277
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Israeli Art written by Yigal Zalmona and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Century of Israeli Art presents the story of modern Israel's visual culture, beginning with the pre-state years of Zionist art in the early 20th century and extending to the present day, as a new generation of Israeli artists rises to international prominence in the 21st century. Framing artistic developments in the context of successive periods, author Yigal Zalmona describes the many ways in which Israel's art has been influenced by its social and political history. This look at the wider picture goes hand-in-hand with detailed, enlightening analyses of seminal artworks from every period. Zalmona surveys the early days of the Bezalel School, founded in 1906 in the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement; Land-of-Israel art during an era of nation-building; the pre-eminence of international modernism and Lyrical Abstraction after 1948; social-activist and conceptual art in the 1970s; and the recent embrace of photography and video. Throughout its evolution, Israeli art has reflected a complex cultural discourse revolving around questions of identity – Western versus Eastern, local versus universal, national and ethnic, collective and personal. Drawing on the author's decades of accumulated knowledge and activity in the field of Israeli art – as historian, critic, teacher, and curator – and aimed at a broad audience, this book will be fascinating reading for art-lovers and for all those with an interest in Israel's cultural history, offering a compelling example of the interaction between visual art and a dynamic, multifaceted society.

Author : Gideon Ofrat
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606840
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Derrida written by Gideon Ofrat and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, no critical work has touched on the Jewish dimension in Jacques Derrida's philosophical oeuvre. Ofrat notes that early Derridean works contained few, if any, references to Jewish writers, concepts, or issues. At first glance, Judaism itself, along with all other structures found in traditional Western metaphysics, would appear to have no place in Derrida's thought, but Ofrat argues that "Derrida cannot be thoroughly understood without elucidating the Jewish current running through his philosophy, right down to the scar of his circumcision." A French-Algerian Jew, Derrida broke free of the Jewish consciousness and culture of his childhood—but taught that leaving something is a precondition for recognizing its significance. Ofrat suggests that Derrida's philosophy grew from these early influences and the fragments of his Jewish identity, and he offers a comprehensive reading of Derridean writings and strong grounding in Jewish tradition. By approaching Derrida's philosophical, poetic, and artistic themes through a Jewish lens, Ofrat gives a sophisticated, subtle, entirely fresh reading of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1627798544
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine written by Rashid Khalidi and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.

Author : Lola Kantor-Kazovsky
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900449815X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Jewish Art in the Age of Multiple Modernities written by Lola Kantor-Kazovsky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can studying an artist’s migration provide the key to unlocking a “global” history of art? The artistic biography of Michail Grobman and his group, which was active in Israel in the 1970s, open up this vital new perspective and analytical mode.

Author : Maoz Azaryahu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253223571
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tel-Aviv, the First Century written by Maoz Azaryahu and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tel-Aviv, the First Century brings together a broad range of disciplinary approaches and cutting-edge research to trace the development and paradoxes of Tel-Aviv as an urban center and a national symbol. Through the lenses of history, literature, urban planning, gender studies, architecture, art, and other fields, these essays reveal the place of Tel-Aviv in the life and imagination of its diverse inhabitants. The careful and insightful tracing of the development of the city's urban landscape, the relationship of its varied architecture to its competing social cultures, and its evolving place in Israel's literary imagination come together to offer a vivid and complex picture of Tel-Aviv as a microcosm of Israeli life and a vibrant modern global city.

Author : Alec Mishory
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004405275
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secularizing the Sacred written by Alec Mishory and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Secularising the Sacred, Mishory offers an account of Zionist Israeli artists-designers' visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging “civil religion,” through a process of giving visual form to Zionist ideas and myths.

Author : Rocco Giansante
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900453072X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts written by Rocco Giansante and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagined Israel(s) presents a nuanced image of Israel by considering multiple artistic representations of the Jewish state, stretching beyond stereotypical representations of war and conflict, while also encompassing the experience and perspective of the Jewish diaspora and other communities.

Author : Dalia Manor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134367813
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art in Zion written by Dalia Manor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-03 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.