Full Description
Jewish visual artists living and working in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries broaden an appreciation of the art of the Americas. The anthology addresses an often underacknowledged Jewish presence as part of the aesthetic of the global south providing the general public and scholars with in-depth insights. The artists' dynamic prints, sculptures, paintings, and photographs explore aspects of modernist abstraction, and at times, indigenous materials, sardonic commentary on consumerism, and utopian ideals in their works of art. The anthology begins to fill a void of the contribution of Jewish Latin American artists born in Europe who immigrated to Latin America and others born there.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Jewish Latin American Artists: Perspectives from the Global South
Laura Fattal
1 The Camera as Compass: Kati Horna's Photographic Exiles
Michel Otayek
2 Ruminating on Rupture: Unraveling Metallic Threads in the Work of Gertrude Goldschmidt (GEGO)
Laura Fattal
3 Krajcberg's Canopy: Practises and Expressions
Laura Fattal
4 Gyula Kosice's The Hydrospatial City, Social Justice, and Repairing the World
Rachel Mohl
5 Myra Landau and the Wisdom of the Senses
Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig
6 José Gurvich: "With Fire in My Hands ..."
Cecilia de Torres
7 Spectacle and Spirituality: the Cacophony of Objects, Nelson Leirner (1932-2020)
Laura Fattal
8 Feliza Bursztyn: the Feminist Welder
Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig
9 Guillermo Kuitca: the Conscious and Subconscious Mind
Lynn Zelevansky
Conclusion - Transcending Borders: the Jewish Artist Diaspora in Latin America
Estrellita B. Brodsky
Index
