Miller, Eva;
(2023)
A New Look for the Jewish Past: Historicism, Authenticity, and Fantasy in E. M. Lilien’s Bible Art.
The Art Bulletin
, 105
(1)
pp. 37-63.
10.1080/00043079.2022.2109387.
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Abstract
In the multivolume Bücher der Bibel (1908–12), Jewish artist Ephraim Mose Lilien imagined a glorious Jewish past that resonated with Zionist discourses of spiritual and artistic revival. He visualized this past in part through appropriating iconography from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. The significance of Lilien’s historicism must be understood in the context of a culture conflicted about the relationship between the Bible and the Middle Eastern past, at a time when an association between German imperial power and the ancient Middle East was ubiquitous in popular media and promoted at the highest levels of the state.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A New Look for the Jewish Past: Historicism, Authenticity, and Fantasy in E. M. Lilien’s Bible Art |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00043079.2022.2109387 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2022.2109387 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10165759 |
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