Sculpting a Life - Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv

Sculpting a Life - Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv
Paula J Birnbaum
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Hardback
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7 Feb 2023 US
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9781684581139
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The first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff. Sculpting a Life is the first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff, and the first work to include stories from her unpublished memoir. Paula J. Birnbaum pulls from a series of interviews in 1957 by the late Israeli journalist, Riva Katznelson, which focused on the artist' s early life in Ukraine, her family' s move to Palestine and Orloff' s life from 1905-10, and her years in Paris through World War I. Orloff' s multiple migrations and forced exiles, combined with her gender and Jewish identities, had a cumulative effect. Although transnationalism evades easy definition, this book shows how this framing lends itself to new directions in the study of Orloff' s life and work. It also proposes a new model for investigating artists' lives and works, especially women and gender-nonconforming artists, who may also identify as multinational or placeless. Women like Orloff have been overlooked by history and excluded from the canon of modernism within art history. Sculpting a Life brings Orloff to the forefront and shows her historical and artistic significance.
Paula J. Birnbaum is the academic director of the Museum Studies Master of Arts Program and professor of art history and museum studies at the University of San Francisco. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary art. Birnbaum is a former Fulbright Scholar and fellow at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of, among other works, Women Artists in Interwar France.
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ISBN-13: 9781684581139
Published: 7 Feb 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Brandeis University Press
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 9mm
Width: 6mm
Pages: 440

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