Secularizing the Sacred: Aspects of Israeli Visual Culture: 65 (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 65) - Hardcover

Book 27 of 51: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

Alec Mishory

 
9789004405264: Secularizing the Sacred: Aspects of Israeli Visual Culture: 65 (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 65)

Synopsis

In Secularising the Sacred, Mishory offers an account of Zionist Israeli artists-designers' visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging civil religion, through a process of giving visual form to Zionist ideas and myths.

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About the Author

Alec Mishory's publications deal with the origins of Israeli art and its links with Jewish themes and Zionist utopias including The Jewish Art Scene in Israel 1948-1949 (2013) and Joseph Budko's Design of H. N. Bialiks Works Edition of 1923 (2006).

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