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Soltes, Ori Z. "Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century." Hanover, New Hampshire, Brandies University Press, published by University Press of New England, 2003. First Edition. ISBN: 12-58465-049-4. Large square quarto in dust jacket, color frontispiece (detail from Kitaj's 'The Painter (Cross and Chimney)'), x, 163 pp., color plates throughout, a few b/w photos, notes, index. Hardbound. Very Good. "Their work reflects profound historical and cultural issues, such as what it means to be a Jewish artist in the western tradition of Christian art, and what it means, as Jews, to be painters of the specifically American experience. Ori Soltes focuses primarily on the work of 20th-century Jewish painters to explore themes ranging from the trials of immigration, depictions of urban life and politics, renderings of the Holocaust, and the reconstitution of Judaism in recent years by feminist painters and Soviet emigrée artists. The astonishing array of work represented in this book sometimes displays overtly Jewish themes and symbols; other paintings are included for their importance in the general development of 20th-century painting. Balancing individual biographies of painters, stylistic analysis, and thematic interpretations, Soltes offers a remarkable survey of 20th-century American Jewish painting. Despite the diverse range of images, themes, a common thread among most of these paintings is the concept of tikkun olamof repairing or fixing the world. Most of the artists represented here demonstrate an interest in the social, as well as the aesthetic, import of their work. We see this concern for social betterment in the urban paintings of the Soyer brothers, in the "political" paintings of Ben Shahn, in the Holocaust-inflected works of numerous artists, and in the more contemporary work of Joyce Ellen Weinstein decrying violence and racism." from UPNE web copy. The book is especially helpful in its treatment of recent Jewish art. (51443) $20.00 postpaid within the US. van Voolen, Edward. "My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture." Munich Berlin London New York, Prestel, 2006. First Edition. ISBN: 978-3-7913-3362-5. Quarto in dust jacket, 192 pp., color illustrations throughout, some b/w photos, bibliography. Hardbound. Very Good. Another survey of "Jewish Art," that tries to compile the work of artists who strongly identitfied with the Jewish people with the work of artists who were ambivalent about or even stealthy in their concealment of their Jewish identity. The author teases out the effects of Jewish experience, If not specifically Jewish "content" in their art. Artitsts dealt with include (among many others) Ryback, El Lissitzky, Chagal, Man Ray, Soutine, Lesser Ury, Frida Kahlo, Jankel Adler, Otto Freundlich Jim Dine, Moshe Gershuni, Kitaj, Jonathan Borofsky, Grisha Bruskin, Zelig Segal, Christian Boltanski, Anish Kapoor, Lawrnce Weiner, Richard Serra, Michal Na'aman, Nancy Spero, Nan Goldin, Ilya Kabakov, Michal Rovner, and William Kentridge. (51664) $25.00 postpaid within the US. END Henry Hollander, Bookseller 843 Twenty-Fourth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121 tel 415-831-3228 http://www.hollanderbooks.com http://hollanderbooks.blogger.com boyc...@hollanderbooks.com --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
