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In 1996 the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles opened its doors to a new era. The central component of the recently completed Skirball Cultural Center, the museum is home to one of the most significant Judaica art collections in the Western Hemisphere. Curatorial and academic scholars come together in this volume to discuss the museum's origins and its extensive collections, which encompass four thousand years of Jewish historical experience. Full-color illustrations showing objects from each of the museum's collection categories are accompanied by essays explaining the significance of the art. The two final chapters document the museum's core inaugural presentations, Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America, and the ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology exhibits of the Discovery Center.The museum's more than 25,000 objects reveal much about daily life, beliefs, customs, worship, human yearnings, and artistic achievement from biblical to contemporary times. They reflect Jewish life in virtually every corner of the globe and will inspire new chapters of Jewish cultural history. At the same time, the museum is committed to exploring American Jewish life in the context of American society as a whole.Over the years the Skirball Museum has continually expanded its meaning and purpose in a changing world. The valuable repository in the Skirball Cultural Center offers rich learning opportunities for anyone seeking to understand the human spirit through art. ... Read more

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Offering a fresh look at an ongoing dilemma, Creating American Jews explores the struggle to create a distinctive American Jewish sense of self and community, from the 18th century to the present day. ... Read more

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This catalog was published in conjunction with a 1998-99 exhibition of the same name at the Jewish Museum of New York, organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the birth of Israel. The introduction and two contributed essays discuss art in Israel today, in particular a change in culture that is pa ... Read more

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Excellent review of contemporary Israeli Art
I absolutely love this book - it has brilliant images of contemporary artists work, and detailed reviews of the art and artists as well as reference to historical and contemporary issues of politics, gender,ethnicity and religion in relation to Israeli art.Each author gives anindividual and detailed contribution to the book.It cannot be missed byanyone who is interested in Israeli art and the issues surrounding it. ... Read more

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Examines the historical background of Dutch Jewish ceremonial art and how it developed, with descriptions of over sixy of the museum's finest objects, eight essays and numerous colour and black and white illustrations. The items, including Torah finials, kiddush cups and Chanukah lamps have been chosen for their aesthetic quality and historical interest. Also discussed, who donated these objects, how they were used are discussed with reference to inscriptions and other sources. ... Read more

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Long overdue assesment of this groundbreaking sculptor!
Eva Hesse was one of those rare creative spirits who took the unsettled, unhappy, tragic, and difficult aspects of her life and used the underpinnings of uncertainty to forge a wholly unique and superbly creative body of work."Oh...more absurdity!" she would exclaim, reviewing her latest creation. One hears in that comment an undertone of glee, that she has unleashed another unheard-of creation upon the world.Her use of uncoventional materials is also a provocative element of her work, and she knew that...saying "art doesn't last...life doesn't last..." and this was before her terrible diagnosis of brain cancer in her early 30's.As with the early death of Mozart, here we have an instance of a powerfully creative spirit cut off in her prime.Who knows what powerful masterpieces she would have created had she lived on...(she would have been 70 this year...not unreasonably old...)
This book is a superb combination of photographic documentation, subtle and well-thought-out essays and careful production (layout, color plates, binding...all are top-notch!) Of special interest are the reproductions and essays about the yearbooks/scrapbooks compiled by her father, detailing her growth and life in the early stages, including photographs, documents, graphs, etc. Works of art in themselves! All art-lovers of any stripe should consider this excellent volume for inclusion in their library. ... Read more

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This book is the companion volume of the current exhibition 'Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust' at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. This book challenges the stereotypical view that all Jews were passive victims of Nazi oppression.Highlighting the themes of the exhibition, this unique compilation of more than thirty memoirs, oral histories, and letters-some published for the first time in English-documents from a Jewish perspective the vitality and resilience of Jewish life under Nazi oppression. ... Read more

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Since its first year in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted visitors more than 15 million visitors, sometimes at the rate of 10,000 a day, each of whom has walked away with an indelible impression of awe in the face of the unimaginable. This lively, honest, behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the museum´s birth. ... Read more

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It's Fine
I haven't read the book yet, but it arrived as promised and in good condition.

An Interesting Read
A Highly informative and yet very readable account of the building of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and the politics behind it.This is one of those books that by the end you have learned alot. ... Read more

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Excellent book about a brilliant cartoonist - but!
I highly recommend this book. It would be a great gift for anyone with kids or who is interested in art for children. Steig was one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th century and this book showcases his juvenile art very well.

One warning, though: this book limits itself to works for or about children, and despite the title does not represent Steig's entire oeuvre of work.

Something for everyone!
I went to see the William Steig exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York and I was fascinated by his art and humor. I wanted to buy the book right away but the store was closed, so I order it on Amazon and couldn't wait to receive it. I am very happy with this book. It's truly amazing and I highly recommend it. ... Read more

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OCTOBER 10, 2004 ISSUE OF ARCHITECTURAL RECORD MAGAZINE. COVER FEATURES THE DANISH JEWISH MUSEUM. ... Read more

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New York City Art 1940-1976 Seen Through the Prism of 2 of its Major exponents
Catalog for a 2008 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City, this monograph contains a good deal of interesting writing and illustration along with a couple of deflating examples of verbal pretentiousness which is tedious but not a spoiler. To avoid the repetitiveness inherent in yet another show of the same old guys (and a few gals), the focus was placed on the role of the two major creators of the myths of abstraction which impelled people to buying despite the opaqueness of the product. It can fairly be said, that without this myth-making, the rationales which made the abstraction seem meaningful, there could have been no surge of the excitement and buying which made New York City the Queen City of Art in the post-war period and most of the time since. Such writers as Keeblatt and Sandler, deeply involved with the movements in art of the period, and others with solid backgrounds, help us see what Greenberg and Rosenberg did to persuade the art community that Newman, de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko, Kline, Motherwell, Guston and their confrères, had something that should be supported and cherished. On the whole, it is well done, with a few exceptions, accessible to the involved lay reader, and vital to understanding just what can get an art movement started.
With a major exhibition about to open at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the art of the City from 1940 to 1970, will be given a thorough viewing by a relatively few who were there in the beginning and the many who have been educated to its virtues since.
This book is a commendable source of information to complement the exhibitions publication which I have not yet seen.

Not What I Was Expecting
There are very few works by Pollock or De Kooning in this book.The majority of illustrations and artists here are have nothing to "action painting". This book is more broad than that.Works of Expressionism,Popart,minimalism,and modern sculpture are all explored.

Didn't catch the exhibit?
Action/Abstraction was an incredible exhibit. It covered a familiar time period and well-known artists, but from a wonderfully new perspective. If you are interested in the history of art history, I highly suggest spending some time reviewing this catalog.

Clement Greenberg or Harold Rosenberg?
This is a magnificent artbook enriched by breakthrough studies on the most important movement in post-war American art, namely Abstract Expressionism (and its offshoots like color-field painting). Based on the intellectual rivalry between the two most famous critics of the period, Clement Greenberg (the advocate of abstraction, who insisted on the importance of the work of art versus the creative process, abstract art being the only valid modern form of art) and Harold Rosenberg (who coined the expression "action painting" in a 1952 article in Artnews and to whom what counted was the act of creating, more than the end product) it enables the reader to discover some of the most canonical works of the movement, by De Kooning, Pollock, Newman and many others, lavishly illustrated.

The book accompanies an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum in NYC (which will later go to St Louis) and is a trove of information and documents on the roots, the influences, the governing ideas, the artists' personalities and their reactions to the various opinions stated by Greenberg and Rosenberg on their art but also on the state of contemporary culture.

The reproductions of facsimile of letters are especially interesting, such as the ones Clyfford Still sent to Harold Rosenberg, first urging him to get into art criticism and then condemning him for doing so ("I am deeply disappointed" he ends up writing).

A landmark exhibition enlightened by this rich catalogue (a highlight is Irving Sandler's article on the convergences and divergences between Greenberg and Rosenberg)which I strongly recommend. ... Read more

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Three essays illuminate American interpretations of the "holy land" by examining American tourism and travel to pre-state Israel, the representation of the holy land in exhibitions and world fairs, and the symbols and the public culture of American Zionism. ... Read more

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The Museum of Jewish Heritage, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust opened its doors in 1997, and is recognized as a site of great cultural and historical importance. The powerful stories of courage, family, hope, and faith held within the hexagonal structure of the museum provide a uniquely moving history of Jewish life in the 20th century. This is the first book drawn from the Museum's collection. Selected from the permanent exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City-these 36 objects were passed on to the Museum by Holocaust survivors and their offspring. A child's Torah scroll, a dress worn at the time of liberation from Auschwitz, a desperate telegram, a false passport, a blue-and-white-striped cap from one of the camps-these are the kinds of objects that are emblems of remarkable stories of perseverance and hope. ... Read more

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A Vibrant Review of Tragic and Hopeful Events
This bookis not a dry or historical account of Holocaust events. It is,rather, a story of people and artifacts and memories. Tying some of the tragic events of the Holocaust with life before and afterwards, brings hope and a positive outlook to the reader. A must for everyone's library - it renews one's faith in people's abilitiy to overcome severe hardships and renew their lives. A very positive reading and living lesson! ... Read more