Research Catalog

Title

Raphael Soyer and the search for modern Jewish art / by Samantha Baskind.

Author

Baskind, Samantha

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987

Description

x, 260 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

• "Samantha Baskind examines the painter's art and life in the rich context of religious, cultural, political, and social conditions in the twentieth-century United States. By promoting an understanding of Soyer not only as a painter of social conditions but also as a Jewish American artists, she addresses larger questions regarding the definition and study of modern Jewish art. Whereas previous scholars have defined Jewish art simply as art produced by people who were born Jewish, Baskind stresses the importance of an artist's cultural identity when defining ethnic art. Baskind explains how Soyer negotiated his Jewish identity in changing ways over the course of his life. At the same time, she offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting Jewish art in general.
• Her analysis of Soyer's work places the artist in a necessary cultural context and provides a valuable new approach to the study of modern Jewish art."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Biographie (Descripteur de forme)
• Jewish art > United States
• Realism in art > United States
• Painters > United States > Biography
• Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographie (Descripteur de forme)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-246) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

New York painter -- Jewish artist -- Soyer or Walter Broe -- Soyer behind the scenes -- Creative friendship -- Conclusion, or farewell to Raphael Soyer.

ISBN

0807828483 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003014543

OCLC

• 52514390
• SCSB-11142862

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library