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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1584656379. Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Slight bumps to lower corner points of boards.; Glossy paper, color and b/w illustrations. Clean and tight. Due to size, ships within US only and only by media rate mail.; Small 4to 9"-11" tall; 196 pp; Brandeis Series In American Jewish History, Culture, And Life.
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VG/VG (light scuffs, scratches to the cloth. crinkling to spine ends. dustjacket scuffed & scratched; edge-wear, curling to edges; rubbing to spine top) Black cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. book xviii, 170 pgs w/ bw, color illustrations. glossy black & illustrated dustjacket w/ white, red printing. "Based on more than 20 years of original research in Europe, Israel, and the United States by artist Murray Zimiles, and accompanied by an essay by distinguished Judaica scholar Vivian B. Mann, this book is the first fully developed study of the secularization of Eastern European Jewish folk art traditions in America. Until recently, little was known in the United States about the creative work of European Jewish folk artists. The destruction of the material heritage of Eastern European Jews during World War II has made it very difficult to recover artifacts of Jewish artistry. The physical remnants of that heritage among them, the types of papercuts, gravestones, and wood carvings featured in this volume can only suggest how extensive the traditions of Jewish folk art in Eastern Europe once were. Skilled craftsmen, responsible for the painted and carved interiors of Eastern European synagogues and their elaborately carved arks and bimahs, came to the New World in the late nineteenth century, where they soon flourished and became the creators of some of America's greatest folk art. Folk art embraces many artistic expressions made by gifted individuals who have not had formal training in the arts. Folk artists apply a diverse range of skills to objects used in daily life. Jewish folk artist émigrés encountered in the United States a society more interested in what they could produce than in what religion they practiced. Not only did they continue to carve religious artifacts for new synagogues serving fellow immigrants; they also created wooden trade figures, carnival figures, and some of the greatest carousel animals the world has ever seen. This volume tells the story of carvers who, released from Eastern European religious strictures, responded with great playfulness to an expansive new environment."--Amazon.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1584656379. Color and black and white photographs throughout. Second printing. Near fine in a near fine (some light foxing on verso) dust jacket.
Publisher:
University Press of New England and the American Folk Art Museum
Published:
2007
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
12672612242
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First printing. Brandeis University Press. xviii, 171 pages printed on slick paper. 4to 11 1/4" tall x 8 5/8" wide. Black cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Richly illustrated. Celebrates Jewish carving traditions fom the Old World to the New. Clean. Dust jacket. Like new/ Like new.
