{"title":"Carol Zemel","description":"Carol Zemel is Professor Emerita of Art History and Visual Culture in the Department of Visual Arts at York University, Toronto.","products":[{"product_id":"looking-jewish-visual-culture-and-modern-diaspora-hardcover","title":"Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish art and visual culture--art made by Jews about Jews--in modern diasporic settings is the subject of \u003ci\u003eLooking Jewish\u003c\/i\u003e. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting by Ken Aptekar entitled \u003ci\u003eAlbert: Used to Be Abraham\u003c\/i\u003e, a double portrait of a man, which serves to illustrate Zemel's conception of the doubleness of Jewish diasporic art. She considers two interwar photographers, Alter Kacyzne and Moshe Vorobeichic; images by the Polish writer Bruno Schulz; the pre- and postwar photographs of Roman Vishniac; the figure of the Jewish mother in postwar popular culture (Molly Goldberg); and works by R. B. Kitaj, Ben Katchor, and Vera Frenkel that explore Jewish identity in a postmodern environment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50119624491231,"sku":"9780253005984","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Zj8FGkUcs_9780253005984.webp?v=1781567817"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/carol-zemel.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}