Modigliani: Beyond the Myth (Jewish Museum)

Klein, Mason; Berger, Maurice; Braun, Emily; Garb, Tamar; Pollock, Griselda

ISBN 10: 030010264X / ISBN 13: 9780300102642

Published by Yale University Press, 2004

About this Item

Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket is in very good condition with some shelf edge wear. 241pp with colour illustrations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modigliani: Beyond the Myth (Jewish Museum)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030010264X
• ISBN 13: 9780300102642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is one of the best known - and most misunderstood - artists of the twentieth century. His incisive portraits, erotically charged nudes, elegant drawings of caryatids, and primitivistic sculpture have been admired for decades. Modigliani's work, however, has typically been examined in the limited context of his so-called bohemian, anti-intellectual lifestyle. This book revises this approach toward Modigliani's art, presenting a revisionist examination of the unique historical, social, religious, and cultural significance of his oeuvre.
Modigliani: Beyond the Myth looks at the artist and his art from a variety of important perspectives: his proud heritage as a Sephardic Jew, whose spirituality embraced non-Western, classical, and Christian iconography while retaining its own ethnic identity; his critical engagement and melding of tribal and ethnographic art with Judaism in his portraiture; the representation of the female nude in his works from a feminist cultural perspective; the remarkable reception of his work in Italy after his death, and the failure of traditional art history to account for or analyze these important aspects of his life and work.

From the Publisher

This book is the catalogue for a major exhibition at The Jewish Museum, New York (May 21 to Semptember 19, 2004); the Art Gallery of Ontario (October 23, 2004 to January 23, 2005); and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (February 19 to May 29, 2005).