| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 328 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"We put all our hope in him" : Lilien and His Oeuvre -- "No longer art speaking but culture" : Lilien, Zionism, and Male Aesthetics -- Boundaries and Borderlines : The "New Woman" and the New Jewish Woman -- The Dangerous "Other" : Lilien's Femmes Fatales, Other Male Avant-garde Behavior, and Elsa Lasker-Schüler's Transgendered Vision -- Biblical Heroines, Biblical Illustrations, and the Search for Meaning -- Ost und West, Zionism, and the Construction of German Jewish Orientalism -- The Exotic "Other" : Lilien's Oriental Beauties and a Jewish Oriental Voice. |
| Summary |
"Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator, photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth scholarly research and analysis of Lilien's work available in English, making this book an important contribution to historical and art-historical scholarship. Concentrating mainly on his illustrations for journals and books, Lynne Swarts acknowledges the importance of Lilien's groundbreaking male iconography in Zionist art, but is the first to examine Lilien's complex and nuanced depiction of women, which comprised a major dimension of his work. Lilien's female images offer a compelling glimpse of an alternate, independent and often sexually liberated modern Jewish woman, a portrayal that often eluded the Zionist imagination. Using an interdisciplinary approach to integrate intellectual and cultural history with issues of gender, Jewish history and visual culture, Swarts also explores the important fin de siècle tensions between European and Oriental expressions of Jewish femininity. The work demonstrates that Lilien was not a minor figure in the European art scene, but a major figure whose work needs re-reading in light of his cosmopolitan and national artistic genius"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lilien, Ephraim Mose, 1874-1925 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Lilien, Ephraim Mose, 1874-1925 |
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Women in art.
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Femininity in art.
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Orientalism in art.
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Art and society -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Art and society -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - |
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Art and society |
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Femininity in art |
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Orientalism in art |
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Women in art |
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Germany |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Swarts, Lynne M.. Gender, orientalism and the Jewish nation at the German fin de siècle New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2019] 9781501336140 (DLC) 2019026349 |
| ISBN |
1501336169 electronic publication |
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9781501336157 electronic publication |
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1501336150 electronic book |
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9781501336164 electronic book |
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9781501336140 hardcover |
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1501336177 |
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9781501336171 |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781501336171 |
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