Framing artistic developments in the context of successive periods, the author describes the many ways in which Israel's art has been influenced by its social and political history. This look at the wider picture goes hand-in-hand with detailed analyses of seminal artworks from every period. Zalmona surveys the early days of the Bezalel School, founded in 1906 in the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement; Land-of-Israel art during the era of nation-building; the preeminence of international modernism and Lyrical Abstraction after 1948; social-activist and conceptual art in the 1970s; and the recent embrace of photography and video. Throughout its evolution, Israeli art has reflected a complex cultural discourse revolving around questions of identity - Western versus Eastern, local versus universal, national and ethnic, collective and personal.' - excerpted from back cover.
Onsite
English
cultural studies,  sociology,  art history,  visual culture,  Israel
2013
498
9781848221277
1
monograph
1. Zionist Aesthetics: Jewish Artists in Late-Nineteenth-Century Europe
2. The Bezalel School: Early Arts and Crafts in the Land of Israel
3. Modernism and the Fascination with the East
4. A Decade of Conflict: Localism and Universalism
5. Nimrod - A Case Study in Art, History, and Identity
6. Art in the Service of Nation-Building
7. New Horizons
8. The Bird of Now
9. The Seventies: Exploring the Boundaries of Art
10. The Eighties: Back to Painting
11. The Return of the Real?
12. The Beauty of Weakness
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