This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship.
Melissa L. Mednicov establishes her study within the context of prominent Jewish artists, dealers, institutions, and collectors in New York City in the Pop sixties. Mednicov incorporates the historiography of Jewish identity in Pop art-the ways by which identity is named or silenced-to better understand how Pop art made, or marked, different modes of identity in the sixties. By looking at a nexus of the art world in this period and the ways in which Jewish identity was registered or negated, Mednicov is able to further consider questions about the ways mass culture influenced Pop art and its participants-and, to a larger extent, formed further modes of identity.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Jewish studies, and American studies.
| ISBN: | 9781032318028 |
| Publication date: | 29th September 2025 |
| Author: | Melissa L Mednicov |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 146 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Art History |
| Genres: |
History of art Popular culture Social groups: religious groups and communities Religion: general Regional / International studies Theory of art |
This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship.
Melissa L. Mednicov establishes her study within the context of prominent Jewish artists, dealers, institutions, and collectors in New York City in the Pop sixties. Mednicov incorporates the historiography of Jewish identity in Pop art-the ways by which identity is named or silenced-to better understand how Pop art made, or marked, different modes of identity in the sixties. By looking at a nexus of the art world in this period and the ways in which Jewish identity was registered or negated, Mednicov is able to further consider questions about the ways mass culture influenced Pop art and its participants-and, to a larger extent, formed further modes of identity.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Jewish studies, and American studies.
Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art features in the following genres: History of art, Popular culture, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Religion: general, Regional / International studies, Theory of art
Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art is available in Paperback, Hardback
Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art was written by Melissa L Mednicov and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art has 146 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Art History series
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