Ahasuerus at the Easel

This survey asks a seemingly simple question: Is there an affinity between the emergence of modern art and various Avant-Garde movements such as Russian Suprematism and Polish or Hungarian Constructivism around about the turn of the last century and the process of Jewish assimilation in the Habsburg empire and Russian tsardom respectively?

Autorentext

Tom Sandqvist is Professor and Docent in Theory of Art and Art History based in Stockholm. Ahasuerus at the Easel continues the discussion in the author's previous book The Sacred Cause (Peter Lang 2013) on Central and Eastern European Modernism.

Inhalt
Contents: Jewish art Central and Eastern European Modernism Art and Hebraism Avant-Garde art at the turn of the century Jewish philosophy.