Arthur Szyk -

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Editeur : Giles

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2017

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 240

Expédition : 1661

Dimensions : 28.7 x 25.6 x 2.5

ISBN : 1911282085

Résumé :

Foreword by Louise Mirrer, President of the New-York Historical Society - 4

Preface - Steven Heller

Behind the Great Art and the Great Messages stands Arthur Szyk, the Great Man by Irvin Ungar

The Timeless Aesthetics of Arthur Szyk by James Kettlewell

Arthur Szyk: The Artist as Soldier, the Artist as Messenger by Michael Berenbaum

Arthur Szyk: Immigrant as Quintessential American Patriot by Tom Freudenheim

Main plates section: 187 colour plates/figures with brief captions

Endnotes for the essays

Contributor/Author Biographies

Timeline of Szyk's life

Selected Solo Exhibition History

Bibliography and Resources

Acknowledgements

Checklist of the artworks in the accompanying exhibition

Index

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Biographie:
and the creator and publisher of the luxury limited edition of The Szyk Haggadah. He also serves as the curator of The Arthur Szyk Society in Burlingame, California. Michael Berenbaum, PhD, is Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at the American Jewish University and a Professor of Jewish Studies. He is the former Project Director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the former President of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The author and editor of twenty-two books, Berenbaum was Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica, which ran 16 million words in twenty-two volumes. His work in film has won Academy Awards and Emmy Awards. He consults on the creation of museums as well as documentary films. Tom L. Freudenheim is an art historian and retired museum director, who served as Assistant Secretary for Museums at the Smithsonian Institution. A graduate of Harvard College and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, he has also been director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection in London, as well as deputy director and COO of the Jewish Museum Berlin. Freudenheim has been Chair and President of the American Federation of Arts and the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and has served on numerous other boards. He writes about museums and art for the Wall Street Journal and other publications. Steven Heller is the co-chair of the MFA Design / Designer As Author + Entrepreneur Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. The author or editor of more than 170 books on graphic design, illustration, and satiric art, he is author of The Daily Heller for Print magazine. For over thirty years he was art director of The New York Times Book Review. James Kettlewell received his BA and MA from Harvard College before continuing his studies with the prestigious Paul J. Sachs Museum Course. He was a Fulbright research scholar, studying at the Courtauld Institute of the University of London. Professor Kettlewell has taught at Harvard College, University of Toronto, and Skidmore College. He was curator of the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York, and has arranged numerous art exhibitions. He has published in many areas of art history and is a consultant both in the museum field and in the attribution and evaluation of works of art.