Re-presentations of the jewish image: three new contributions
Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting the representational realist painter Israel Hershberg in his Jerusalem studio, where he was busy working on a small painting, one of a series of “tree portraits.” It was an exquisite work, in which each dappling of light on every needle of a towering cypress...
| Subtitles: | Representations of the Jewish Image : Review Essay |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2002]
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| In: |
AJS review
Year: 2002, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 327-340 |
| Review of: | Gentile tales (New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale University Press, 1999) (Epstein, Marc Michael)
Images of intolerance (Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 1999) (Epstein, Marc Michael) Images of intolerance (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999) (Epstein, Marc Michael) |
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| Summary: | Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting the representational realist painter Israel Hershberg in his Jerusalem studio, where he was busy working on a small painting, one of a series of “tree portraits.” It was an exquisite work, in which each dappling of light on every needle of a towering cypress was exactingly represented on a miniature scale. But I was startled to see that, while he had blocked out the shape of the tree and the general parameters of light and shade “in the wild,” this champion of rendering from life was actually completing most of the painting in the studio. At first I thought the tree must be outside the window, or that he must be working from a photograph, but when I asked him where the detailing was coming from, he tapped his finger to his forehead. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009402000090 |