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Roundup: Ugly Jews, Attractive Sentimentality

March 13th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • (Image: Student German Vazquez, who’s inspired by Middle Eastern art and Buddhism. The Advocate)
  • [Wash. Post] A 1-woman show for Frida, Jewish-born father (?) turned atheist, “With Herself as Artist and Subject.”
  • [Forward] Vitebsk’s Jewish artists flourished thanks to Yuri Moiseevich Pen, “the Adam of his artsy race.”
  • [Haaretz] In Middle Ages Christian art, Jews are ugly, but somehow rabbis spun it so that “The source of the ugliness was their sexual purity,” while Christians’ beauty “derived from an impure source.”
  • [Patry Copyright Blog] William Patry, senior copyright counsel at Google, writes on copyrights and Anschluss, particularly how they interact with “Degenerate Art.”
  • [Aristasia] In defense of the “attractiveness” of “sentimental” Christian and Hindu art.
  • [Boston Globe] On the biblical source for Judaic needlework and The Pomegranate Guild.
  • [Abigail’s Alcove] A Catholic art critic skips the Greek revival and baroque sections (”Those are just myths”) and falls in love with Rubens “through the eyes of Faith.”
  • [16 and Q Blog] A recap of Ori Soltes’ lecture on “Jewish Abstract Expressionists After the Holocaust.”

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