Secularizing the Sacred : Aspects of Israeli Visual Culture

Alec Mishory

ISBN 10: 9004405267 / ISBN 13: 9789004405264

Published by Brill Aug 2019, 2019

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Neuware - In Secularising the Sacred, Mishory offers an account of Zionist Israeli artists-designers' visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging 'civil religion,' through a process of giving visual form to Zionist ideas and myths.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Secularizing the Sacred : Aspects of Israeli Visual Culture
• Publisher: Brill Aug 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004405267
• ISBN 13: 9789004405264
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 239W x 160H x 28D millimeters 239 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 862 grams

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Synopsis

As historical analyses of Diaspora Jewish visual culture blossom in quantity and sophistication, this book analyzes 19th-20th-century developments in Jewish Palestine and later the State of Israel. In the course of these approximately one hundred years, Zionist Israelis developed a visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging “civil religion.” Bridging internal tensions and even paradoxes, artists dynamically adopted, responded to, and adapted significant Diaspora influences for Jewish-Israeli purposes, as well as Jewish religious themes for secular goals, all in the name of creating a new state with its own paradoxes, simultaneously styled on the Enlightenment nation-state and Jewish peoplehood.

About the Author

Alec Mishory's publications deal with the origins of Israeli art and its links with Jewish themes and Zionist utopias including The Jewish Art Scene in Israel 1948-1949 (2013) and Joseph Budko's Design of H. N. Bialik’s Works Edition of 1923 (2006).