WHO ARE WE? 120 YEARS OF ART IN ISRAEL
Wed, May 03
|Marlene Meyerson JCC
Embarks on a journey across key milestones in the story of Israeli art. A featured topic will be Israeli artists’ everlasting search for a collective identity: Israeli? Hebrew? Jewish? Lecturer: Gideon Ofrat, Ph.D. 5 sessions: Thu, Apr 27 + 4 Wednesdays, May 3, 10, 17 + 24
Time & Location
May 03, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Marlene Meyerson JCC, 334 Amsterdam Ave at, W 76th St, New York, NY 10023, USA
About the event
Lecturer: Gideon Ofrat, Ph.D.
Embarks on a journey across key milestones in the story of Israeli art. A featured topic will be Israeli artists’ everlasting search for a collective identity: Israeli? Hebrew? Jewish? In these five sessions, we will explore artwork from the early days of Zionism through post-Zionism; discuss pieces that are both local and global; and learn about the tension between the longing for modernism and the urgent commitments to place and time.
5 sessions: Thu, Apr 27 + 4 Wednesdays, May 3, 10, 17 + 24
1. The Birth of Art from the Spirit of Zionism. 2. Modernism Versus Regionalism of the 1950's. 3. Art, War and Politics in Israel of the 1970's. 4. The Return of the Old Jew in the Israeli Art of the 1990's.
5. The Rise and the Fall of Jerusalem in Israeli Art.
Gideon Ofrat, Ph.D., is a leading Israeli art historian and curator who specializes…