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Jewish Latin American Artists
Perspectives from the Global South
Series: - Jewish Latin America, Volume: 19
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Jewish visual artists living and working in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries broaden an appreciation of the art of the Americas. The anthology addresses an often underacknowledged Jewish presence as part of the aesthetic of the global south providing the general public and scholars with in-depth insights. The artistsâ dynamic prints, sculptures, paintings, and photographs explore aspects of modernist abstraction, and at times, indigenous materials, sardonic commentary on consumerism, and utopian ideals in their works of art. The anthology begins to fill a void of the contribution of Jewish Latin American artists born in Europe who immigrated to Latin America and others born there.
Laura Fattal, professor emerita from William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey -recipient of Fulbright Hays study abroad grant- is a specialist in arts-integration (Ph. D. University of Texas). She researches and writes on Jewish Latin American artists for over twenty years.
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction â Jewish Latin American Artists: Perspectives from the Global South
âLaura Fattal
1 The Camera as Compass: Kati Hornaâs Photographic Exiles
âMichel Otayek
2 Ruminating on Rupture: Unraveling Metallic Threads in the Work of Gertrude Goldschmidt (GEGO)
âLaura Fattal
3 Krajcbergâs Canopy: Practises and Expressions
âLaura Fattal
4 Gyula Kosiceâs The Hydrospatial City, Social Justice, and Repairing the World
âRachel Mohl
5 Myra Landau and the Wisdom of the Senses
âFrancine Birbragher-Rozencwaig
6 José Gurvich: âWith Fire in My Hands â¦â
âCecilia de Torres
7 Spectacle and Spirituality: the Cacophony of Objects, Nelson Leirner (1932â2020)
âLaura Fattal
8 Feliza Bursztyn: the Feminist Welder
âFrancine Birbragher-Rozencwaig
9 Guillermo Kuitca: the Conscious and Subconscious Mind
âLynn Zelevansky
Conclusion â Transcending Borders: the Jewish Artist Diaspora in Latin America
âEstrellita B. Brodsky
Index
The readers of this anthology are the adult general public, academics, libraries, specialists in Latin America and Jewish History and Culture and interdisciplinary researchers in history, anthropology, art history, literature, media, sociology, and political science.