Monday, January 26th, 2009...8:07 pm
Jewish art?
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“Is there a Jewish art?” Harold Rosenberg asked at New York’s Jewish Museum in 1966. “They build a Jewish Museum, then ask: ‘Is there a Jewish art?’ Jews!” Forty years on, in our pluralistic, multicultural art scene, it is surely nonsensical to link artists as diverse as Lucien Freud, Richard Serra, William Kentridge and Christian Boltanski simply because they are Jewish. And, as we fragment modernism’s histories, what has revolutionary abstractionist El Lissitzky to do with impressionist Max Liebermann, or surreal photographer Man Ray with figurative painter Modigliani? more@FT.com
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January 28th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
When I met Jewish-American expressionist Hyman Bloom six or seven years ago, he asked me (with a twinkle in his eye) if I could identify any artist as being characteristically “Jewish.”
I immediately replied, “Chaim Soutine.”
He nodded, “Yes, Chaim Soutine…”
And I would add Hyman Bloom to that list.
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