1st Edition

Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art Ghosts of Ethnicity

By Lisa E. Bloom Copyright 2006
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Featuring sixty-seven illustrations, and providing an important reckoning and visualization of the previously hidden Jewish 'ghosts' within US art, Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art addresses the veiled role of Jewishness in the understanding of feminist art in the United States. From New York city to Southern California, Lisa E. Bloom situates the art... Read more

Introduction  1. Greenberg's Modernist Shadow  2. Negotiating Jewishness in the 1970s: The Work of Judy Chicago and Mierle Ukeles Laderman  3. Rewriting the Script: Eleanor Antin's Feminist Artwork  4. The California Work of US Photographer and Feminist Martha Rosler  5. Contemporary Feminist Art Practices in New York  6. California Feminist Art and Post-Nationalist Identities

Biography

Lisa Bloom teaches visual culture at the University of California, San Diego. Her previous publications include With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture (1999) and Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions (1993).

'an important contribution... Bloom's work is thoughtfully written, generously illustrated...' - CAA Reviews

'groundbreaking... thought-provoking' - Women in Judaism

'a ground-breaking book... a valuable contribution... not only a pleasure to read but a timely and brave book.' Art History