We Are in A Golden Age of Jewish American Art and We Don't Really Know It March 7, 2011

Beginning in the 1970s, many artists turned to the basic texts of Judaism - the Bible, the Talmud, Kabbalah and the daily and holiday prayer books - to find their religious and spiritual roots as well as their subject matter. Matthew Baigell, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University, examines how these artists developed styles of their own. Rather than illustrating the texts traditionally, they interpret them in intensely personal ways that start from individual points of view.