Jewish artists and the Bible in twentieth-century America /
Explores the works of five major American Jewish artists, including Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers and R. B. Kitaj. Focuses on the use of imagery influenced by the Bible.
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Catastrophe and the biblical archetype in Jack Levine's art
- George Segal and the Book of Genesis
- Audrey Agonistes : anguish, stereotype, and Audrey Flack
- Biblical parody : Larry Rivers's history of matzah : the story of the Jews as counterhistory
- R. B. Kitaj : village explainer of Jewish art
- Epilogue : Jewish artists and the formation of the American art canon.