{"product_id":"looking-jewish-visual-culture-and-modern-diaspora-hardcover","title":"Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Zemel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish art and visual culture--art made by Jews about Jews--in modern diasporic settings is the subject of \u003ci\u003eLooking Jewish\u003c\/i\u003e. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting by Ken Aptekar entitled \u003ci\u003eAlbert: Used to Be Abraham\u003c\/i\u003e, a double portrait of a man, which serves to illustrate Zemel's conception of the doubleness of Jewish diasporic art. She considers two interwar photographers, Alter Kacyzne and Moshe Vorobeichic; images by the Polish writer Bruno Schulz; the pre- and postwar photographs of Roman Vishniac; the figure of the Jewish mother in postwar popular culture (Molly Goldberg); and works by R. B. Kitaj, Ben Katchor, and Vera Frenkel that explore Jewish identity in a postmodern environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol Zemel is Professor Emerita of Art History and Visual Culture in the Department of Visual Arts at York University, Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 29, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736755605567,"sku":"9780253005984","price":77.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e016cb9c28845aeef2087468574e8a67.webp?v=1765147756","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/looking-jewish-visual-culture-and-modern-diaspora-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}