Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Catastrophe and the Biblical Archetype in Jack Levine’s Art

2 George Segal and the Book of Genesis

3 Audrey Agonistes: Anguish, Stereotype, and Audrey Flack

4 Biblical Parody: Larry Rivers’s History of Matzah: The Story of the Jews as Counterhistory

5 R. B. Kitaj: Village Explainer of Jewish Art

Epilogue: Jewish Artists and the Formation of the American Art Canon

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“Marked by meticulous original research, creative scholarly thinking, and lucid prose, Jewish Artists and the Bible is a stunning achievement.”

—Andrea Pappas, Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture