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Shai Barkan : works 1995. by Barkan, Shai,1956-(CARDINAL)213098; Muzeʼon Tel Aviv le-omanut.(CARDINAL)203744;
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Barkan, Shai, 1956-; Industrial designers; Jewish sculpture; Metal sculpture;
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Jewish art : paintings and sculpture by 20th century Jewish artists of the French and British schools / by Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries,issuing body.(CARDINAL)785171;
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Jewish art;
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Michael Rakowitz : Nimrud / by Rakowitz, Michael,artist.(CARDINAL)881381; Adler, Tracy L.,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)785339; Alcauskas, Katherine D.,editor,curator,contributor.(CARDINAL)879760; Sahakian, Rijin,contributor.; Distributed Art Publishers,distributor.(CARDINAL)784868; Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art,publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)785338;
Includes bibliographical references.Using Arab-language newspapers and wrappers from food products imported from the Middle East, Iraqi American artist Michael Rakowitz (born 1973) has recreated to scale Room H from the Northwest Palace of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud (Kalhu). Part of a reception suite, Room H was originally lined with seven-foot-tall carved stone reliefs, including an inscription detailing Ashurnasirpal II's achievements and winged male figures, many of which have been removed by Western archaeologists over the last 150 years. Here, Rakowitz has recreated only those panels that were in situ in Room H when the remains of the palace were destroyed by the jihadist group the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2015. Areas from which the reliefs had already been removed by 19th-century archaeologists are left blank, resulting in what Rakowitz calls a palimpsest of different moments of removal."Michael Rakowitz (b. 1973, Long Island, NY) is an Iraqi-American artist working at the intersection of problem-solving and troublemaking. His work has appeared in venues worldwide including dOCUMENTA (13), P.S.1, MoMA, MassMOCA, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Palais de Tokyo, the 16th Biennale of Sydney, the 10th and 14th Istanbul Biennials, Sharjah Biennial 8, Tirana Biennale, National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt, Transmediale 05, FRONT Triennial in Cleveland, and CURRENT: LA Public Art Triennial. He was awarded the 2018-2020 Fourth Plinth commission in London's Trafalgar Square. He is the recipient of the 2020 Nasher Prize; the 2018 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts; a 2012 Tiffany Foundation Award; a 2008 Creative Capital Grant; a Sharjah Biennial Jury Award; a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Architecture and Environmental Structures; the 2003 Dena Foundation Award, and the 2002 Design 21 Grand Prix from UNESCO. Solo projects and exhibitions include Creative Time, Tate Modern in London, The Wellin Museum of Art, MCA Chicago, Lombard Freid Gallery and Jane Lombard Gallery in New York, SITE Santa Fe, Galerie Barbara Wien in Berlin, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, Malm̲ Konsthall, Tensta Konsthall, and Kunstraum Innsbruck, and Waterfronts - England's Creative Coast. From 2019-2020, a survey of Rakowitz's work traveled from Whitechapel Gallery in London, to Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Torino, to the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai. Upcoming solo exhibition venues include Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin; Stavanger Art Museum, Norway; and Green Art Gallery, Dubai. He was recently granted a commission for a public project on the topic of Archaeology and Migration Flows for the Municipality of The Hague. Rakowitz lives and works in Chicago." -- Biography from:
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Rakowitz, Michael; Northwest Palace (Calah); Arab American art; Arab American artists; Arab American arts; Art, American; Art, Modern; Artists; Bas-relief; Bas-relief; Collage; Conceptual art; Jewish art; Jewish artists; Jewish arts; Jewish sculpture; Mixed media (Art); Sculptors; Sculpture, American; Sculpture, Modern;
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A plastic presence : [exhibition at] the Jewish Museum, November 19,1969 through January 4, 1970, Milwaukee Art Center, January 30 through March 8, 1970, San Francisco Museum of Art, April 24 through May 24, 1970 / by Milwaukee Art Center.(CARDINAL)138980; Philip Morris Incorporated.(CARDINAL)149299;
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Plastic sculpture.; Sculpture, Modern; Plastics as art material.;
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George Segal : retrospective : sculptures, paintings, drawings / by Livingstone, Marco.(CARDINAL)134727; Segal, George,1924-2000.(CARDINAL)143299; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.(CARDINAL)137156; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)(CARDINAL)156362; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.(CARDINAL)160299;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-153).
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Segal, George, 1924-2000;
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The sculpture of Louise Nevelson : constructing a legend / by Nevelson, Louise,1899-1988.(CARDINAL)146019; Rapaport, Brooke Kamin.(CARDINAL)208781; Danto, Arthur C.,1924-2013.(CARDINAL)129620; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)(CARDINAL)156362; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum.(CARDINAL)152527;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index.Louise Nevelson: a story in sculpture / Brooke Kamin Rapaport -- Louise Nevelson's self-fashioning: "The author of her own life" / Michael Stanislawski -- Black, white, gold: Monochrome and meaning in the art of Louise Nevelson / Arthur C. Danto -- Louise Nevelson's public art / Harriet F. Senie -- Plates -- Three artists reflect on Louise Nevelson: Chakaia Booker, Mark di Suvero, and Ursula von Rydingsvard -- Chronology of Louise Nevelson's life / Gabriel de Guzman.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988;
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Because I was a painter [videorecording] : the never before told story of art in the concentration camps / by Cognet, Christophe,filmmaker.; Bacon, Yehuda,1929-interviewee.; Spitzer, W.(Walter),interviewee.; Willenberg, Samuel,interviewee.;
Writers, Christophe Cognet, Jean Breschand, Pierre-François Moreau ; cinematography, Nara Keo Kosal ; film editing, Catherine Zins.Walter Spitzer, José Fosty, Samuel Willenberg, Yehuda Bacon, Kristina Zaorska, Zoran Music."In 1945, when the Allies liberated the concentration camps, they discovered thousands of secretly created artworks. These drawings, hidden from the Nazis, offer an unparalleled understanding of life in the camps. Featuring interviews with surviving artists, curators as well as recently uncovered evidence, this ... documentary considers the ability of art to capture, reflect and survive under unimaginable conditions. Because I Was A Painter explores a wide range of perspectives, from an artist who grapples with finding beauty in paintings of corpses to Treblinka survivor Samuel Willenberg who believes that the artworks can be nothing but inherently devoid of beauty. In addition to works intended as art, the film contemplates the role of alternative relics such as portraits of Romani victims killed by infamous Nazi physician Josef Mengele and paintings that were recreated years later because originals were lost or destroyed. The film looks at paintings, drawings, wash drawings, and sculptures held in collections in France, Germany, Israel, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium and Switzerland. While drifting among these fragments of clandestine images and the vestiges of the camps, Because I Was a Painter undertakes a sensitive quest amid faces, bodies and landscapes to explore the notion of art and its preservation as an atavistic necessity."--Publisher.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Filmed interviews.; Nonfiction films.; Ex-concentration camp inmates; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.; Jewish artists;
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Collecting Matisse and modern masters : the Cone sisters of Baltimore / by Levitov, Karen,author(CARDINAL)214205; Klein, Melissa,compiler.(CARDINAL)503526; Rosenbaum, Joan,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)271824; Baltimore Museum of Art,organizer.(CARDINAL)144046; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.),issuing body,organizer,host institution.(CARDINAL)156362; Jewish Theological Seminary of America,publisher.(CARDINAL)155709; Vancouver Art Gallery,organizer,host institution(CARDINAL)152249; Yale University Press,distributor.(CARDINAL)332061;
Includes bibliographical references.In the early 20th century, Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone first visited the Paris studios of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and began assembling one of the world's most important art collections. Their passion for Matisse's art, in particular, led them to acquire 500 of his works--one of the most extraordinary Matisse collections in the world. Supported by the Cone family textile business, the sisters made frequent trips to Europe to purchase art, and their close friendship with Gertrude and Leo Stein led to a wide circle of influential acquaintances. They eventually amassed a collection of 3,000 works, which were donated to The Baltimore Museum of Art after Etta Cone's death in 1949. This publication gathers 47 artworks from the internationally renowned Cone Collection including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Renoir, van Gogh, Courbet, and other masters. Karen Levitov's essay recounts the story of the Cone sisters, their tastes, and their remarkable collection. Levitov also discusses what distinguished their connoisseurship from their contemporaries." --
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Cone, Claribel, 1864-1929; Cone, Etta; Art, Modern; Art;
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Contemporary synagogue art; developments in the United States, 1945-1965. by Kampf, Avram.(CARDINAL)172405;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.The Synagogue: A house of prayer, study and assembly -- Synagogue and ancient temple -- A house of the people instead of a house of God -- Worship by prayer and not sacrifice -- Instruction and debate replace magical elements -- New relation of individual to service -- The origin of the synagogue -- Löw's Theory -- From city gate to people's house to synagogue -- The view of S. W. Baron -- conditions for growth of self government in ancient Israel -- The synagogue as institution adapted to survival of religious-ethnic group in many lands -- The synagogue as house of instruction -- Prayer as instruction -- Psychological consequences of daily prayer -- The synagogue as house of assembly -- Community functions of the synagogue --Philo on the synagogue -- The Interpretation of the Second Commandment: Strict and liberal interpretations of the second commandment -- General retarding effect on development of plastic arts -- Sculptures in the biblical temple -- David Kaufmann revises historical view of Jewish attitude toward arts -- The work of Leopold Löw -- Abraham Geiger's Responsum -- View of contemporary scholarship -- The archeological evidence of an ancient Jewish art -- Liberal and conservative talmudic views -- Jewish craftsmen as makers of idols -- The view of Maimonides -- Art among the Jews of Italy and Poland -- Philosophic considerations -- Judaism's preference for the spoken word -- Views of Grätz and Herman Cohen -- The Jewish concept of God -- Attitude toward images reflecting religious situations in the ancient world -- Pervasiveness of a moral view of life -- The American Synagogue Today: The return to the synagogue -- The rise of the synagogue center -- Jewish survival under conditions of freedom -- The quest for Jewish identity -- The expansion of synagogue activities -- The quest for decorum -- Demand for art coming from tradtional sources and new conditions -- The view of Dr. M. 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Kaplan -- The idea of the Holy -- The adoption of modern architecture -- What should a synagogue look like? -- The view of Lewis Mumford -- The need for reconciliation of function and expression in synagogue architecture --The failure of functional planning to satisfy psychological needs -- The need for the work of art -- relationship of art and modern architecture -- the solutions to the problem of art in architecture by Sullivan, Wright, the International Style and the Bauhaus -- Leaders in architecture build synagogues -- The function of art in today's architecture -- Percival Goodman's contribution to the problem -- Collaboration among the arts -- Aft for Today's Synagogue: The expression of the Jewish ethos -- The communal art of a seventeenth-century synagogue -- The breakdown of the traditional Jewish world view -- Jewish theology today -- The function of art in the reestablishment of Jewish communal and religious values -- The artist vis-à-vis the community -- The position of the architect -- The role of the rabbi -- The need for his education in the arts -- art as an avenue of religious experience -- Modern art for the synagogue -- The expansion of the repertoire of Hebrew art -- A monumental scale for Jewish Analytic, expressive, and decorative tendencies of contemporary art in the synagogue -- The problem of communication in modern synagogue art -- The Hebrew letter -- Didactic art -- Synthesis of the abstract and the concrete in synagogue art -- synagogue art and the freedom of the artist -- Existence of Jewish motives in contemporary art of which the synagogue is unaware -- A genuine religious art for which the synagogue is a natural home -- Younger American artist and their Jewish subjects -- The place of the isolated work of art in the synagogue -- Relation of Jewish community to Jewish artists -- The case of Ben-Zion -- Congregation B'nai Israel in Millburn, New Jersey: Contemporary artists in the service of the synagogue -- Artwork integrated into exterior -- Sculpture aiding architecture in expressing the building's purpose -- The burning bush -- Use of new materials and new techniques -- A mural on the theme of the temple wall -- Inscriptions on the walls of the prayer hall -- A congregation remembers -- Stones from destroyed synagogues -- Torah curtains designed by artist and executed by women of congregation -- The signs of the curtain -- The reaction of the congregation -- The aims and achievements of the artist -- Artwork on Synagogue Exteriors -- The pillar of fire in hammered bronze -- The creation of the world and the liberation from bondage in sgraffito, terrazzo and metal -- Eight relief sculptures on persistent ideas of Judaism -- "Not by might but by my spirit..." -- The use of Hebrew mythology for representation of spirit and might -- "On three things the world is founded" -- A bronze sculpture of Moses and the burning bush -- A menorah designed in brick -- The pillar of fire and pillar of smoke in concrete, and a menorah resembling a chariot -- Five tile murals on Jewish ideas from the Bible -- A sculptural metaphor on theme of the menorah -- Sculpture in wrought iron -- The ladder, the Torah and the crowns -- A sculpture in metal and glass -- Artwork in the Vestibule: House of prayer, house of study , house of assembly, a mosaic mural on the contemporary synagogue -- the burning bush and the Messianic hope -- The yoke of Torah, a ladder to heaven -- Jacob's dream --The Messianic theme, another version of a mosaic mural -- The Miracle -- Artwork in the Prayer Hall-Part I: The ark as receptacle for the Torah scrolls -- Ark and bimah, two centers competing for attention -- The bimah, from a small platform to an imposing structure -- The representation of the ark in ancient Hebrew art -- The enlargement of the ark's frame -- The Torah curtains and the Eternal Light -- The menorah, a cosmic tree transformed as symbol of Judaism -- The memorial light -- The Torah ornaments -- The commanding position of the ark today -- The prayer hall embodying tensions within Judaism--the point of view of a Jewish theologian -- The functions of the synagogue are indivisible -- The need to evoke the numinous -- The use of stained-glass windows -- Different artistic conceptions of the prayer hall -- The wall which shelters the ark -- The ark, free standing and recessed -- The impact of contemporary design and materials on the ark -- The menorah today, search for depth and asymmetry -- A variety of Eternal Light lamps -- The memorial tables -- The use of electricity questioned -- Artwork in the Prayer Hall-Part II: Interiors designed by Erich Mendelsohn -- The evocation of the Holy by darkness and emptiness -- The bimah of Temple B'nai Israel in Bridgeport, Conn. -- The Beth El, Springfield, Mass. -- The primitive invades a modern synagogue -- Evocation of time and mobility in the arks of the Hebrew Congregation in Indianapolis, Ind. -- Silver ark doors narrate the biblical story in Temple Beth El in Great Neck, N.Y. -- Sculptured lead doors which recall the Holocaust -- Human figures and artist's self portrait carved on ark doors -- A modern carving of an old Hebrew fold motif -- The winged ark at Brandeis University -- The meeting of man with God -- The bronze ark of Temple B'rith Kodesh in Rochester, N.Y. -- Stained-Glass Windows: Stained-glass windows -- Man and community -- The windows in Temple B'nai Aaron, St. Paul, Minn. -- Stained-glass walls at the Milton Steinberg House in New York City and at Temple Shalom in Newton, Mass. -- Jewish history in stained glass at Har Zion in Philadelphia, Pa. -- Aspects of American Jewish history at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh -- Stained-glass windows as backdrop for the ark in New York City -- Fragments of old stained-glass windows worked into a modern design -- the unity of man, god, and the universe -- Abraham Rattner bases the design of a window on the cabala -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
Subjects: Synagogue art, American.; Synagogue architecture;
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Art across the ages [sound recording] by Soltes, Ori Z.(CARDINAL)267384; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Pt. 1. Continuity and transformation: what is art? -- Art as the offspring of religion -- Preclassical Greek art -- Toward the classical Athenian moment -- Beyond the borders of classical Greek art -- The birth of the new: Hellenistic art -- Hellenistic, Etruscan, and early Roman art -- Roman and Judaean art -- Early Christian art and its progeny -- The beginnings of Jewish art -- Christian medieval art and architecture -- The language of Romanesque and Gothic art.Pt. 2. Islamic art from abstract to figurative -- Jewish medieval art and architecture -- Early Renaissance painting in central Italy -- 15th century Italian Renaissance painting -- Renaissance painting beyond the Alps -- Renaissance sculpture: toward Florence -- High Renaissance in central Italy -- The rebirth of classical dynamism -- The light of the Veneto -- 16th century Northern European painting -- Transformation of people, objects, ideas.Pt. 3. The Reformation and the Mannerist crisis -- Baroque shadows: Venice to Madrid to Rome -- Shadow and light from Rome to the lowlands -- Northern landscapes and life sweeps -- The counter-Reformation from Italy outward -- Revolutions in Spanish and English painting -- France's gold and silver ages -- Politics and romanticism -- From realism to impressionism -- From Paris to the East -- American romantic realism and its progeny -- Fin de Siècle European art movements.Pt. 4. Asia and Africa in the Western mind -- They all came to Paris -- Revolutions in early 20th century painting --Figuration and abstraction: the struggle -- Developments in sculpture: Rodin to Judd -- New worlds of architecture: Wright to Hadid -- The edges of West and East -- Art, trauma, and politics -- Defining modern Jewish art -- The problem of categories in modern art -- The explosion of modernist media -- Art, politics, and religion from era to era.Lecturer: Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University.Presents a course in Western visual art that serves as both a mind-broadening survey and an essential introduction. It is designed to give anyone interested in Western art a firm familiarity with its basics, including major artists and styles in various media and providing a broad foundation for deeper exploration.DVD.
Subjects: Art appreciation.; Art; Art; DVD-Video discs.;
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