To Figure, or Not to Figure The Iconoclastic Proscription and Its Theoretical Legacy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introducing Jewish Identity to Art History 1
5. PART I. Theories, Laws, and Disciplines
6. From Bezal'el to Max Liebermann Jewish Art in Nineteenth-Century Art-Historical Texts 19
7. Anti-Semitism and Aniconism The Germanophone Requiem for Jewish Visual Art 41
8. To Figure, or Not to Figure The Iconoclastic Proscription and Its Theoretical Legacy 67
9. PART II Artists and Collectors
10. Jewish Identity in Art and History Maurycy Gottlieb as Early Jewish Artist 87
11. Collecting and Collective Memory German Expressionist Art and Modern Jewish Identity 114
12. Ethnic Notions and Feminist Strategies of the ig70s Some Work by Judy Chicago and Eleanor Antin 135
13. PART III .Art Historians and Critics
14. Art History, German Jewish Identity, and the Emigration of Iconology 167
15. Refranting the Self-Criticism Clement Greenberg's "Modernist Painting" in Light of Jewish Identity 180
16. Meyer Schapiro's Jewish Unconscious 200
17. Aby Warburg Forced Identity and "Cultural Science" 218
18. Illustrations 231
19. Contributors 234
20. Index 237