Born over a fifty-year period, the artists in this volume represent several generations of twentieth-century artists. Examining the work of such influential art

Explores the works of five major American Jewish artists: Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj. Focuses on the use of imagery

Jewish themes in American art were not very visible until the last two decades, although many famous twentieth-century artists and critics were and are Jewish.

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challenge religious t

Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists presents over 80 19th- and 20-century Jewish American artists, ranging from the critically neglected Theresa Bernstein,