The Rabbi and the Painter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rabbi and the Painter write by Shoshana Weiss. This book was released on 2020-09-21. The Rabbi and the Painter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on stories handed down from the past, The Rabbi and the Painter tells of the unique relationship between the 15th Century Rabbi Judah Areyeh di Modena and the Venetian painter Tintoretto. Modena's interests extended far beyond the typical confines of the ghetto's synagogue life to the secular world around him, while Tintoretto breaks all the artistic rules of the Renaissance with his mannerist painting style. In The Rabbi and the Painter we are transported to a place where cultures mixed to create a breathtaking masterpiece.
Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-century America
Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-century America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-century America write by Samantha Baskind. This book was released on 2014. Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-century America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the works of five major American Jewish artists: Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj. Focuses on the use of imagery influenced by the Bible.
The People's Painter
The People's Painter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The People's Painter write by Cynthia Levinson. This book was released on 2021-04-20. The People's Painter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn “The first thing I can remember,” Ben said, “I drew.” As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees—and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers’ rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what’s right. As he grows, he speaks for justice through his art—by disarming classmates who bully him because he’s Jewish, by defying his teachers’ insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories, by urging the US government to pass Depression-era laws to help people find food and jobs. In this moving and timely portrait, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson and illustrator Evan Turk honor an artist, immigrant, and activist whose work still resonates today: a true painter for the people.
My Name Is Asher Lev
My Name Is Asher Lev - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Name Is Asher Lev write by Chaim Potok. This book was released on 2009-07-01. My Name Is Asher Lev available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic from the National Book Award–nominated author of The Chosen, a young religious artist is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him to blasphemy. “A novel of finely articulated tragic power .... Little short of a work of genius.”—The New York Times Book Review Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. He grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. He is torn between two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other devoted only to art and his imagination, and in time, his artistic gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous, visionary portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant.
Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art
Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art write by LaNitra M. Berger. This book was released on 2020-11-12. Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. South African artist Irma Stern (1894–1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than fifty years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.
