My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture.
Munich Berlin London New York: Prestel, 2006. First Edition. Hardbound. Quarto in dust jacket, 192 pp., color illustrations throughout, some b/w photos, bibliography. Very Good. Item #51664
ISBN: 9783791333625
Another survey of "Jewish Art," that tries to compile the work of artists who strongly identitfied with the Jewish people with the work of artists who were ambivalent about or even stealthy in their concealment of their Jewish identity. The author teases out the effects of Jewish experience, If not specifically Jewish "content" in their art. Artitsts dealt with include (among many others) Ryback, El Lissitzky, Chagal, Man Ray, Soutine, Lesser Ury, Frida Kahlo, Jankel Adler, Otto Freundlich Jim Dine, Moshe Gershuni, Kitaj, Jonathan Borofsky, Grisha Bruskin, Zelig Segal, Christian Boltanski, Anish Kapoor, Lawrnce Weiner, Richard Serra, Michal Na'aman, Nancy Spero, Nan Goldin, Ilya Kabakov, Michal Rovner, and William Kentridge.
Price: $14.95