Secularizing the Sacred : Aspects of Israeli Visual Culture
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| Title: | Secularizing the Sacred : Aspects of Israeli Visual Culture |
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| Description: | As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging “civil religion.” Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood. |
| Authors: | Alec Mishory |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Zionism in art, Art, Modern--19th century--History, Art, Israeli--History--20th century, Jewish art and symbolism--Palestine, Jewish art and symbolism--Israel |
| Categories: | RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging “civil religion.” Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004405264 9789004405271 |
