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ISBN10: 1584651792, ISBN13: 9781584651796, [publisher: Brandeis University Press published by the University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire] Hardcover First Edition Octavo in dust jacket, xxii, maps, 279 pp., color illustrations, notes, bibliography, index Maurycy Gottlieb was born in 1856 in the small city known in Polish as Drohobycz, then attached to the province of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the course of his very short life (he died at age 23), Gottlieb painted dozens of extraordinary works that have since found homes in museums in eastern Europe. (where he has long been honored as a Polish artist) and in Israel, where, following a major exhibition in 1991 in Tel-Aviv, he achieved the status of a founding father of Jewish art. The subjects of his paintings range from self-portraits and portraits of family and friends to "orientalist" themes, historical topics, and biblical scenes, including two important representations of Jesus.Ezra Mendelsohn situates this impressive body of work in the context of contemporary European painting, and uses Gottliebs work to illuminate the sociopolitical and cultural complexity of the multi-ethnic and multi-religious Austro-Hungarian Empire prior to World War I. Interpreting the paintings, and their reception in Gottliebs day and beyond, Mendelsohn touches on a number of key issues in modern Jewish history, among them identity, assimilation, acculturation, nationalism, the relationship ...
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