Painting a people
Subtitle: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish art
By: Ezra Mendelsohn.
Series: Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Gottlieb, Maurycy, -- 1856-1879 -- Criticism and interpretation; Art, Jewish -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine); Jews in art
Other titles: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish art
Description: "Ezra Mendelsohn situates Gottlieb's impressive body of work in the context of contemporary European painting and uses it to illuminate the sociopolitical and cultural complexity of the Austro-Hungarian Empire prior to World War I.

Interpreting the paintings and their reception, in Gottlieb's day and beyond, Mendelsohn addresses several key issues in modern Jewish history, among them identity, assimilation, acculturation, nationalism, the relationship between Jewry and European culture, and relations between Jews and non-Jews, particularly Poles."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.