Too Jewish? : Challenging Traditional Identities

The resurgence of ethnic consciousness over the past decade has had a profound effect on many Jewish artists, writers, performers, & the Jewish community at large. This book places the Jewish identity subjects in the recent art of such artists as Deborah Kass, Rona Pondick, Archie Rand, Elaine Reichek, Art Spiegelman, Hannah Wilke, & others within a large continuum of influences ranging from 19th-century art history to 20th-century media & pop culture. Essays by major writers explore the historic & scientific roots of the construction of the Jew's ethnicity, assimilation strategies, & stereotypes inherent in past & present definitions of Jewish masculinity & felinity. Black & white & color illustrations.Kleeblatt, Norman L. is the author of 'Too Jewish? : Challenging Traditional Identities', published 2001 under ISBN 9780756750084 and ISBN 0756750083.