Photo Credit:
“Renew our days as of old”(from Echah) (2011) Ink, acrylic and collage on paper by David Wander. Courtesy the artist

Whether these contemporary book artists favored technique, material, sacred text and/or interpretation as their emphasis, each pursued in a deeply intimate form of engagement with Hebrew text and tradition, echoing its particular narrative convention by the very serial nature of book art. Book unbound or bound, scroll or fold-out, the dynamic of multiple images to narrate concretely or abstractly defines all these works as reflections of a Biblical narrative paradigm. Clearly that is why we are called the People of the Book.


Share this article on WhatsApp:
Advertisement

1
2
3
SHARE
Previous articleLatma to Close because of Failure on the Right?
Next articleLife Lessons From Raising An Autistic Child (Part IV)
Richard McBee is a painter and writer on Jewish Art. Contact him at [email protected]