Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarzâs Modern Jewish Art in Palestine

Noa Avron Barak

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In: Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts

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Pages:: 40â54

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004530720_004

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This chapter investigates popular textual representations of the early Israeli art canon, positing its fictional character. By a literary analysis of Karl Schwarzâs Modern Jewish Art in Eretz Yisrael (1941) through a theoretical framework derived from Hayden White and Frank Kermode, I will draw distinctions between canon as history and canon as literature. Although common perspectives on the Israeli art canon have mostly dealt with the critical deconstruction of the power regimes dominating the art field, whether professional academic university departments or national-state institutions, my research points at the literary essence of the Israeli art canon. Viewing the canon through its textual representation enables me to delve into the writing and interpretation of art history, arguing for its narrative element and the literary components used by its authors. Indeed, I do not see writers of the canon as historians, but rather as poets. This move unveils the imaginative elements of the Israeli art canon, alluding also to the understanding that the consensus around certain artworks and artists may be an imagined consensus.

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Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts

Series:Â Jewish Identities in a Changing World, Volume: 35

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004530720

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 22 Feb 2023

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Part 1 Building from the Ground up: Landscape, Language, and Culture

Part 2 Consuming Images: Israel in America

Part 3 Within, without: Becoming Glocal

Part 4 Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined

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