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Tapestries and Mosaics of Marc Chagall at the Knesset
illustrated with 50 color plates
141 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1973
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About the author
Ziva Amishai-Maisels
6 books2 followersDr. Ziva Amishai-Maisels is an internationally renowned art historian whose scholarship focuses on the impact of the Holocaust on the visual arts, as well as the work and influence of individual artists Marc Chagall, Jakob Steinhardt, Naftali Bezem, Jacque Lipchitz, Paul Gauguin, and others.
Born in 1939 as Maxine Sylvia Maisels in Brooklyn, New York, to parents Moshe and Deborah (who had emigrated from Warsaw) Ziva was brought up in a home brimming with intellectual and artistic influence. Her father was a writer and editor, and her mother was an artist and art connoisseur. With Ziva's younger sister, the family emigrated to Israel in 1959. She completed her undergraduate and M.A. degrees New York City, the latter at Columbia University. In 1962, while earning her Ph.D. at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she began teaching art history there, and continued to do so after receiving her doctorate in 1970. She has enjoyed a rich career of tireless service and her articles and books continue to be published widely, for both scholarly and popular readers.
Her masterwork, Depiction and Interpretation: The Influence of the Holocaust on the Visual Arts, published in 1993 by Pergamon Press, will continue to stand as an enlightening and exhaustive source of information, analysis, and understanding for decades to come (at least). Batya Brutin, writing for the Jewish Women's Archive, notes: "The importance of Amishai-Maisels’s book lies in its wide scope and in the originality of its conclusions, which demonstrate the impact of the Holocaust on modern art in general. The pioneering nature of her work brought the topic to the attention of academics both in Israel and abroad and established a new area of research. A groundbreaking work, it is today the basis for all research on Holocaust art."
Dr. Amishai-Maisels was awarded the Israel Prize (Art) in 2004.
-K.S. Dorran
Sources:
Brutin, Batya. "Ziva Amishai-Maisels." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. (Accessed 10 November 2014) http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/a....
Hebrew University of Jerusalem website, Art History Department. "Ziva Amishai-Maisels." (Accessed 10 November 2014) http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~maisels/
Hebrew University of Jerusalem website, Division for Development and Public Relations. "Ziva Amishai-Maisels." (Accessed 10 November 2014) http://www.huji.ac.il/dataj/controlle...
Jewish Virtual Library. "Amishai-Maisels, Ziva." (Accessed 10 November 2014) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/j...
Born in 1939 as Maxine Sylvia Maisels in Brooklyn, New York, to parents Moshe and Deborah (who had emigrated from Warsaw) Ziva was brought up in a home brimming with intellectual and artistic influence. Her father was a writer and editor, and her mother was an artist and art connoisseur. With Ziva's younger sister, the family emigrated to Israel in 1959. She completed her undergraduate and M.A. degrees New York City, the latter at Columbia University. In 1962, while earning her Ph.D. at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she began teaching art history there, and continued to do so after receiving her doctorate in 1970. She has enjoyed a rich career of tireless service and her articles and books continue to be published widely, for both scholarly and popular readers.
Her masterwork, Depiction and Interpretation: The Influence of the Holocaust on the Visual Arts, published in 1993 by Pergamon Press, will continue to stand as an enlightening and exhaustive source of information, analysis, and understanding for decades to come (at least). Batya Brutin, writing for the Jewish Women's Archive, notes: "The importance of Amishai-Maisels’s book lies in its wide scope and in the originality of its conclusions, which demonstrate the impact of the Holocaust on modern art in general. The pioneering nature of her work brought the topic to the attention of academics both in Israel and abroad and established a new area of research. A groundbreaking work, it is today the basis for all research on Holocaust art."
Dr. Amishai-Maisels was awarded the Israel Prize (Art) in 2004.
-K.S. Dorran
Sources:
Brutin, Batya. "Ziva Amishai-Maisels." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. (Accessed 10 November 2014) http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/a....
Hebrew University of Jerusalem website, Art History Department. "Ziva Amishai-Maisels." (Accessed 10 November 2014) http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~maisels/
Hebrew University of Jerusalem website, Division for Development and Public Relations. "Ziva Amishai-Maisels." (Accessed 10 November 2014) http://www.huji.ac.il/dataj/controlle...
Jewish Virtual Library. "Amishai-Maisels, Ziva." (Accessed 10 November 2014) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/j...
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