Nationalism, the Jews, and art history

From: Judaism | Date: October 1, 1996| Author: Olin, Margaret | Copyright information

1. Introduction: Vienna 1980

ANTI-SEMITIC ART HISTORIANS, WE ASSUME, NEED NOT write anti-Semitic art history. Granted, Orientalism, of which anti-Semitism is a subcategory, has been convincingly exposed in many disciplines.' Yet we trust scholarly objectivity to keep art history free of anti-Semitism, holding Jewish art itself responsible for the scant attention paid to it, the commandment against the making of graven images presumably insuring that there was not much to talk about.2 ...

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