Fragile images : Jews and art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945 / by Mirjam Rajner
- Author
- Rajner, Mirjam, 1959-
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 446 pages).
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- Series
- Contents
- In search of an identity : Sephardic, Zionist, Yugoslav -- From avant-garde to political activism -- "We artists have to paint" : art created during the war and the Holocaust -- Producing art for partisans : creativity between ideology and survival.
- Summary
- "In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Moša Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by multiple and changeable identities: nationalist and universalist, Zionist and Sephardic, communist and cosmopolitan. These fluctuating identities found expression in their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates, partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images, diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath"--
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- ISBN
- 9004408908 (electronic book)
9789004408906 (electronic bk.)
9789004408852 (hardcover) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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