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Israeli Art and Visual Culture (2018)

Contributor(s): Gannit Ankori, Professor of Fine Arts and Chair in Israeli Art, Department of Fine Arts and Schusterman Center for Israel Studies
Topics(s): Film and Visual Arts, Middle East, Minorities, Music, Palestinians, Society
Date: May 21, 2018

Contemporary Art by Israeli and Palestinian Artists

During the session on campus, we will view, analyze and interpret visual culture from Israel, with emphasis on contemporary art. Given our limited time together, rather than trace a chronological narrative (which can be easily found in books, articles and even online resources), we will concentrate on major thematic foci, iconographical sources, and the diverse regional, political, and art historical contexts within which Israeli visual culture is being produced today.

 

Essential Reading

Norman L. Kleeblatt, “Israel’s Traumas and Dreams,” Art in America, May 2006, pp. 106-115

 

Recommended Reading

Background Reading:

Hutchinson, John and Anthony D. Smith, eds., Nationalism, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Rabinovich, Itamar and Jehuda Reinharz, eds., Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, And Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present, Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2008.

Said, Edward, Orientalism, New York, 1978.

 

Israeli Art History:

New York, The Jewish Museum, In the Shadow of Conflict: Israeli Art 1980-1989, May 10-August 6, 1989 (exh. cat.).

Kampf, Avram, Jewish Experience in the Art of the Twentieth Century, South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1984, pp. 144-175.

Ofrat, Gideon, One Hundred Years of Israel Art, Boulder: Westview, 1998, pp. 21-33.

Zalmona, Ygal, Artists of Israel, 1920-1980, the Jewish Museum, New York, 1981 (exh. cat.) with essays by Moshe Barasch and Ygal Zalmona.


Film and Music:

Loshitzky, Yosefa, Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2002.

Regev, Motti and Edwin Seroussi, Popular Music and National Culture in Israel, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004.

Shohat, Ella, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1989.

 

Arab artists from Israel:

Ankori, Gannit, Palestinian Art, London, Reaktion Books, 2006, chapter 8.

 

Hebrew and Israeli literature:

Dan Miron, From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2010.

Hannan Hever, Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon: Nation Building and Minority Discourse,  New York, NYU Press, 2001.

Yael Feldman, Glory and Agony‬: Isaac’s Sacrifice and National Narrative‬, Stanford University Press, 2010.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

 

Documentaries:

Pillar of Fire: A Television History of Israel’s Rebirth (IBA) Creator and Scriptwriter: Yigal Lossin, 1986.

Tkuma: The First Fifty Years 1948-1998 (IBA) Editor and Producer: Steve Edwards, 1998.

The Gatekeepers, Director: Dror Moreh, 2012.

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