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Regulating and resisting queer creativity: community-engaged arts practice in the neoliberal city [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article draws from and advances urban studies literature on ‘creative city’ policies by exploring the contradictory role of queer arts practice in contemporary placemarketing strategies.
McLean, Heather
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The Medieval Synagogue of Molina de Aragón: Architecture and Decoration

open access: yesArts, 2020
The remains of a medieval synagogue, in addition to numerous fragments of plaster decoration, have been found as a result of the excavation work done at the Prao de los Judíos archaeological site in the town of Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara ...
Daniel Muñoz-Garrido
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The National, the Diasporic, and the Canonical: The Place of Diasporic Imagery in the Canon of Israeli National Art

open access: yesArts, 2020
This article explores Jerusalem-based art practice from the 1930s to the 1960s, focusing particularly on the German immigrant artists that dominated this field in that period.
Noa Avron Barak
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Shoah in Marian Pankowski’s Literary Art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The article centers on the theme of the Holocaust in the literary works of Marian Pankowski: its sources, relations with the concentration camp theme, particular works and their poetics, as well as the aesthetic, social and political problems related to ...
Morawiec, Arkadiusz
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Was Shylock Jewish? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Discusses the invention of Shylock's Jewishness as a reaction to Sir Henry Irving's popular Victorian ...
Emma Smith
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Rachel Lichtenstein’s Narrative Mosaics

open access: yesHumanities, 2020
Rachel Lichtenstein’s books, along with her multimedia art, represent her explorations of her British Jewish identity and her place in British Jewish culture as an imaginative odyssey.
Phyllis Lassner
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Mexican art exhibitions in New York as cultural diplomacy, 1928-1932 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the postrevolutionary state launched an innovative campaign that exported the country’s emerging art and culture, which glorified its indigenous roots. The strategy of expanding its nation-building project
Rendon, Darcy
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The creation of beauty by its destruction: the idoloclastic aesthetic in modern and contemporary Jewish art

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2016
Contemporary commentators are well aware that the Jewish tradition is not an aniconic one. Far from suppressing art, the Second Commandment produces it.
Melissa Raphael
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El Lissitzky’s Red Wedge as the Hebrew letter Yud

open access: yesImages, 2023
The analysis undertaken in this paper sets out with El Lissitzky’s 1919 revolutionary poster entitled Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge. This artwork, composed of simple geometric figures, in which an acute-angled red triangle splits the form of ...
Artur Kamczycki
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Menorah Review (No. 7, Spring, 1986) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
Incomplete Redemption -- Alternatives for a New Jewish-Christian Future -- Books Received -- Identifying Jewish Art: A Question of Moral Consciousness?

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