Research Catalog

Title

Encyclopedia of Jewish American artists / Samantha Baskind.

Author

Baskind, Samantha

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xviii, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.

Summary

Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists presents over 80 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish American artists, ranging from the critically neglected Theresa Bernstein, Ruth Gikow, and Jennings Tofel, to the well-known Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein, and Larry Rivers. The subject matter of some of these artists may surprise readers. Adolph Gottlieb designed and supervised the fabrication of a thirty-five foot wide, four-story high stained glass façade for a synagogue; Louise Nevelson sculpted a Holocaust memorial; and Philip Pearlstein painted a version of Moses with the Tablets of the Law early in his career. Covering painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers, as well as artists who engage in newer forms of visual expression such as video, conceptual, and performance art, the book is in part intended to stimulate further scholarship on these artists. When appropriate, entries reveal the influence of the Jewish American encounter on the artists' work along with other factors such as gender and the immigrant experience. In many cases, the artists' own words are employed to flesh out perspectives on their art as well as on their Jewish identity. To that end, the volume contains excerpts from recent interviews conducted by the author with some of the artists, including Judy Chicago, Audrey Flack, Jack Levine, and Sol LeWitt. Illustrations accompanying each artist's entry, some in color, aid this invaluable look at Jewish American art.

Series Statement

Artists of the American mosaic

Uniform Title

Artists of the American mosaic.

Subjects

• Art, American > 20th century > Dictionaries
• Art, American > 19th century > Dictionaries
• Jewish artists > United States > Biography > Dictionaries

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Dictionaries.
• Reference works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Some initial reading on Jewish American art"-Page 311.

Contents

A brief history of Jewish American art -- Eleanor Antin -- Ida Applebroog -- Diane Arbus -- David Aronson -- Shimon Attie -- Richard Avedon -- Saul Baizerman -- Will Barnet -- Leonard Baskin -- Ben-Zion -- Theresa Bernstein -- Albert Bloch -- Hyman Bloom -- Peter Blume -- Ilya Bolotowsky -- Jonathan Borofsky -- Alice Lok Cahana -- Solomon Nunes Carvalho -- Judy Chicago -- Minna Citron -- Jo Davidson -- Jim Dine -- Alfred Eisenstaedt -- Jacob Epstein -- Philip Evergood -- Moses Jacob Ezekiel -- Herbert Ferber -- Audrey Flack -- Robert Frank -- Helen Frankenthaler -- Lee Friedlander -- Ruth Gikow -- Leon Golub -- Adolph Gottlieb -- William Gropper -- Chaim Gross -- Philip Guston -- Eva Hesse -- Tobi Kahn -- Jacob Kainen -- Alex Katz -- R.B. Kitaj -- Lee Krasner -- Leon Kroll -- Barbara Kruger -- Ibram Lassaw -- Jack Levine -- Sol LeWitt -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Seymour Lipton -- Morris Louis -- Louis Lozowick -- William Meyerowitz -- Henry Mosler -- Elie Nadelman -- Louise Nevelson -- Arnold Newman -- Barnett Newman -- Jules Olitski -- Philip Pearlstein -- Irving Penn -- Archie Rand -- Abraham Rattner -- Larry Rivers -- Mark Rothko -- Miriam Schapiro -- George Segal -- Richard Serra -- Ben Shahn -- Mitchell Siporin -- Aaron Siskind -- Moses Soyer -- Raphael Soyer -- Nancy Spero -- Harry Sternberg -- Maurice Sterne -- Florine Stettheimer -- Alfred Stieglitz -- Paul Strand -- Jennings Tofel -- Abraham Walkowitz -- Max Weber -- Weegee (Arthur Fellig) -- Garry Winogrand -- William Zorach.

Call Number

N6538.J4

ISBN

• 0313336377
• 9780313336379

LCCN

2006028661

OCLC

71243929

Author

Baskind, Samantha, author.

Title

Encyclopedia of Jewish American artists / Samantha Baskind.

Publisher

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Artists of the American mosaic

Artists of the American mosaic.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Some initial reading on Jewish American art"-Page 311.

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Table of contents

Other Form:

Online version: Baskind, Samantha. Encyclopedia of Jewish American artists. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007 (OCoLC)607848519

Research Call Number

*R-JWS N6538.J4 B37 2007