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Fragile images : Jews and art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945

Title
Fragile images : Jews and art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945 / by Mirjam Rajner.
Author
Rajner, Mirjam, 1959-
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description
xxvi, 446 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
Summary
"In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Moša Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by multiple and changeable identities: nationalist and universalist, Zionist and Sephardic, communist and cosmopolitan. These fluctuating identities found expression in their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates, partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images, diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath"--
Series Statement
Balkan studies library, 1877-6272 ; volume 26
Uniform Title
Balkan studies library ; v. 26.
Subject
  • Jewish artists > Yugoslavia > Biography
  • Art, Yugoslav > Themes, motives
  • Art and society > Yugoslavia
  • Art and society
  • Art, Yugoslav > Themes, motives
  • Jewish artists
  • Juden
  • Künstler
  • Künstlerin
  • Kunst
  • Yugoslavia
  • Jugoslawien
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
In search of an identity : Sephardic, Zionist, Yugoslav -- From avant-garde to political activism -- "We artists have to paint : art created during the war and the Holocaust -- Producing art for partisans : creativity between ideology and survival.
ISBN
  • 9789004408852
  • 9004408851
  • 9789004408906 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2019034654
OCLC
  • on1104066930
  • 1104066930
  • SCSB-9604325
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library