THE HUMAN FIGURE AND JEWISH CULTURE

In the twentieth century, the avant-garde movements promoted abstraction and formal experimentation in the visual arts, often dispensing with the human form altogether. Yet many artists of Jewish descent resisted this trend and continued to depict the human figure with sympathy and understanding. Few of them portrayed overtly Jewish themes, but?as Eliane Strosberg argues in this thought-provoking volume?their persistent devotion to the human figure was itself a reflection of their Jewishness. Though their individual styles were divers...[Read more]