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Modern Jewish Art
Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities
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In Modern Jewish Art: Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities, Ori Z. Soltes considers both the emerging and evolving discussion on, and the expanding array of practitioners of âJewish artâ in the past two hundred years. He notes the developing problem of how to define âJudaismâ in the 19th centuryâas a religion, a culture, a race, a nation, a peopleâand thus the complications for placing âJewish artâ under the extended umbrella of âreligion and the arts.â The fluidity with which one must engage the subject is reflected in the broadening conceptual and visual vocabulary, the extended range of subject foci and media, and the increasingly rich analytical approaches to the subject that have surfaced particularly in the past fifty years. Well-known and little-known artists are included in a far-ranging discussion of painting, sculpture, photography, video, installations, ceremonial objects, and works that blur the boundaries between categories.
Ori Z. Soltes, PhD (2005), Union University, is Teaching Professor at the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University. Recent books include Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture (2016) and Magic and Religion in the Greco-Roman World: The Beginnings of Judaism and Christianity (2017).
All interested in Jewish artâits problematic definition and its expansive expression through the emergence of Jewish artists and the field of âJewish art historyâ in the past two centuries.