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Beautifully illustrated and compelling.. . . . [Baskind's] fine book argues for a more inclusive art history that is more attentive to the factors that contribute to artistic identity, such as religion. --Erika Doss, Material Religion

This book is a meticulous examination of a marginalized aspect of the work of five respected American Jewish artists and it opens the way for a re-examination of 20th-century biblical art and what Baskind has revealed as the catalytic role of the Bible on art from the previous century . The book succeeds, I believe, in inviting us to rethink and re-examine 20th-century American art. Darrelyn Gunzburg, Cassone

Beautifully illustrated and compelling.. . . . [Baskind's] fine book argues for a more inclusive art history that is more attentive to the factors that contribute to artistic identity, such as religion. </p>--Erica Doss, <em>Material Religion</em></p>

Scholars of contemporary religious history, of art history, and of the immigrant experience will find much to interest them in this fine volume. Peter Webster, Reviews in History

In a 'modernist' century, known chiefly for its increasing emphases both on pictorial abstraction and on secularism, surely a book on this topic, American biblical subjects, comes as a surprise. That all the artists in question were Jewish Americans, many of them recent immigrants and first generation in their profession, arrives with the force of a revelation. Presenting these discoveries, Samantha Baskind remains fully the master of her material, a mature scholar well known for her specialization in Jewish modern artists of twentieth-century America. She judiciously chooses case studies that span issues of medium, gender, generation, and--ultimately--complex, often multiple, identity. Like these individuals, Baskind manages to hold in creative tension all the disparate components of the designation 'Jewish American artist.' --Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania

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Samantha Baskind is Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University.

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