Heritage
jewish artists in america since 1900
$167.24
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
14 December 2025
Summary
Heritage: Jewish Artists in America Since 1900
As millions of Jews immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe starting in the 1870s, they brought with them not only their religious heritage but also a definitive idea of the place and value of art and aesthetics in society. These ideas, motivated by local customs, morality, and political and social interests, are clear in the work of twentieth-century Jewish artists such as Mark Rothko, Leon Israel, Max Weber, Saul Bernstein…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780815611905 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0815611900 |
| Series: | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art |
| Author: | Matthew Baigell |
| Publisher: | Syracuse University Press |
| Imprint: | Syracuse University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 14 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
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“None [of the existing works on this topic] focus as extensively on this intersection of political, social, and art history in the early twentieth century. There is importance in Baigell’s assertion for a Jewish art history, one that denies ‘assimilation’.” - Melissa L. Mednicov, author of Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art
“A magisterial rethinking and retelling of American Jewish art history.” - Diana L. Linden, author of Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene
About The Author
Matthew Baigell
Matthew Baigell is professor emeritus in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University. He is the author, editor, and coeditor of over twenty books on American and Jewish American art. His most recent book is Jewish Identity in American Art: A Golden Age since the 1970s.
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