The Human Figure and Jewish Culture

The Human Figure and Jewish CultureIn the twentieth century, the avant garde movements promoted abstraction and formal experimentation in the visual arts, often dispensing with the human form altogether. Yet many artists of Jewish descent resisted this trend and continued to depict the human figure with sympathy and understanding. Few of them portrayed overtly Jewish themes, butas Eliane Strosberg argues in this thought provoking volumetheir persistent devotion to the human figure was

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