TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tom Sandqvist
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653044768
TI  - Ahasuerus at the Easel
T2  - Jewish Art and Jewish Artists in Central and Eastern European Modernism at the Turn of the Last Century
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-04476-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048442
N2  - This survey asks a seemingly simple question: Is there an affinity between the emergence of modern art and various Avant-Garde movements such as Russian Suprematism and Polish or Hungarian Constructivism around about the turn of the last century and the process of Jewish assimilation in the Habsburg empire and Russian tsardom respectively? What about the possible connection between «Hebraism», Jewish Messianism, Talmudic philosophy, and Kabbalistic speculations and the most radical, Utopian Avant-Garde movements of the region? Was Russian Cubo-Futurism, Suprematism, Productivism, Polish and Hungarian Constructivism actually fostered by ideas and practices articulated in Eastern Jewry? And what was the impact of Anti-Semitism on how the artists related to stylistic purity and their own cultural identity in the region already prior to the emergence of Avant-Gardism? And how did the supposed biblical ban on «graven images» influence the approach of the Jewish artists?
KW  - Modernism, Hebraism, Moderne (kunst), Avantgarde, Russian Suprematism, Konstruktivismus, jüdische Philosophie
LA  - English
ER  -