Matthew Baigell: 3 books
Jewish Art in America
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
In this first book-length study of Jewish art in America, Matthew Baigell explores works from the early settlers of America to the present. It concentrates on exploring and examining Jewish subject matter employed by artists as they illustrated aspects of their religious and ethnic heritage and as...
A Concise History Of American Painting And Sculpture
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This clear, thorough, and reliable survey of American painting and sculpture from colonial times to the present day covers all the major artists and their works, outlines the social and cultural backgrounds of each period, and includes 409 illustrations integrated with the text. Although some determining...
The Implacable Urge to Defame
Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated at the time. Members of ethnic groups were depicted as fools, connivers, thieves, and individuals hardly...