Wrestling with the Diaspora’s Angels: A Note on Fra Angelico’s Legacy in Hungarian-Israeli Art
While numerous scholars have analyzed the influence of immigration on Jewish visual culture, few have focused on the Hungarian-Israeli scene. This article seeks to resolve some of the lacunae surrounding expressions of Hungarian immigrant experiences in Israeli art by analyzing the Annunciation them...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Images
Year: 2023, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 158-166 |
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Summary: | While numerous scholars have analyzed the influence of immigration on Jewish visual culture, few have focused on the Hungarian-Israeli scene. This article seeks to resolve some of the lacunae surrounding expressions of Hungarian immigrant experiences in Israeli art by analyzing the Annunciation theme in Hedi Tarjan’s series Homage to Fra Angelico, which was painted in the 1980s and the 2000s. A woman artist with a complex Christian-Jewish identity, Tarjan expressed her cross-cultural and interfaith experiences in her paintings and can be regarded as a “Jewish Diasporist” in the sense elaborated in American artist R. B. Kitaj’s manifestos. The article concludes by arguing that Tarjan, as a Jewish artist who emigrated from Hungary to Israel, faced unique professional, cultural, and religious challenges. |
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ISSN: | 1871-8000 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Images
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18718000-12340176 |