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Jewish Icons : Art and Society in Modern Europe by Richard I. Cohen (1998, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520205456

ISBN-139780520205451

eBay Product ID (ePID)457126

Product Key Features

Number of Pages382 Pages

Publication NameJewish Icons : Art and Society in Modern Europe

LanguageEnglish

SubjectJudaism / General, Subjects & Themes / Religious, European, Europe / General, Subjects & Themes / General, History / General, Jewish Studies

Publication Year1998

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Religion, Social Science, History

AuthorRichard I. Cohen

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight43.3 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-045375

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal704.03/924/00903

SynopsisWith the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, ceremonial art, modern Jewish painting and sculpture, political broadsides, monuments, medals, and memorabilia. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers.

LC Classification Number96-45375