Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300111568 ISBN 13: 9780300111569

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2007

Synopsis

A fascinating and timely look at Israel by contemporary Israeli and non-Israeli artists from a wide range of perspectives

What can art tell us about Israel today? Is there an artistic consensus among those living inside and outside the country? How does an artist come to terms with the disturbing realities in Israel---violence, political instability, insecurity, and social discrimination? These questions are at the heart of Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, a compelling volume that presents photographs and videos of Israel from the diverse outlooks of nearly two dozen international artists. These images reveal the intensity of life there as well as the artists’ profound personal responses to Israeli life and culture. What is revealed is a complicated view of Israel that has evolved out of the utopian model of an earlier era. In three insightful essays, the contributors to the volume explore the role of art and artists in contemporary Israel. Susan Tumarkin Goodman examines the aesthetic and political underpinnings of lens-based art made in Israel; Andy Grundberg discusses the roots of Israeli photography and video and places them in an international context; and Nissan N. Perez offers an insider’s view of the cultural issues that affect the practice of art in Israel today.
 

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Book Description:

Through the camera lens, contemporary Israeli and non-Israeli artists view Israel today from a broad range of perspectives. Their photographs and videos, all created since 2000, represent the life and culture of a nation where political realities influence every aspect of creative culture and where individual identities evolve in complex ways.
 

About the Author:

Susan Tumarkin Goodman is senior curator at The Jewish Museum. Andy Grundberg is chair of the photography department at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Nissan N. Perez is Horace and Grace Goldsmith Senior Curator of Photography at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300111568
• ISBN 13: 9780300111569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Goodman Susan Tumarkin