UID:
kobvindex_JMB00128773
Format:
XXXIV, 328 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781501336140
Content:
Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator, photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth scholarly research and analysis of Lilien's work available in English, making this book an important contribution to historical and art-historical scholarship. Concentrating mainly on his illustrations for journals and books, Lynne Swarts acknowledges the importance of Lilien's groundbreaking male iconography in Zionist art, but is the first to examine Lilien's complex and nuanced depiction of women, which comprised a major dimension of his work. Lilien's female images offer a compelling glimpse of an alternate, independent and often sexually liberated modern Jewish woman, a portrayal that often eluded the Zionist imagination. Using an interdisciplinary approach to integrate intellectual and cultural history with issues of gender, Jewish history and visual culture, Swarts also explores the important fin de siècle tensions between European and Oriental expressions of Jewish femininity. The work demonstrates that Lilien was not a minor figure in the European art scene, but a major figure whose work needs re-reading in light of his cosmopolitan and national artistic genius. Table of Contents Introduction: Finding Blind Spots Chapter One: Ephraim Moses Lilien and His Oeuvre: Context and Contested Issues Chapter Two: 'We Put All our Hope in Him': Lilien, Zionism and Male Aesthetics Chapter Three: Boundaries and Borderlines: The 'New Woman' and the New Jewish Woman Chapter Four: The Dangerous 'Other': Lilien's Femmes Fatales, Other Male Avant-garde Behaviour and Elsa Lasker-Schüler's Transgendered Vision Chapter Five: Biblical Heroines, Biblical Illustrations and the Search for Meaning Chapter Six: Ost und West, Zionism and the Construction of German Jewish Orientalism Chapter Seven: The Exotic 'Other': Lilien's Oriental Beauties and a Jewish Oriental Voice? Conclusion Bibliography
Note:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-1-5013-3616-4 (ISBN)
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-1-5013-3615-7 (ISBN)
Language:
English
URL:
http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz1668275651inh.htm
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032144950&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/gender-orientalism-and-the-jewish-nation-9781501336140/
