Creator Bio
Joshua Neustein
b. 1940
Joshua Neustein was born in Danzig (now Gdańsk), Poland. He studied painting at the Pratt Institute in New York and emigrated to Israel in 1964, where he taught at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. Neustein played a prominent role in the development of Environmental and Conceptual Art in Israel. He collaborated with the artist Georgette Batlle on several conceptual artworks. In 1995, he represented Israel at the Venice Biennale with Possessed Library, and in 1996, his installations, known as Ash Cities, were exhibited in Winston Salem, N.C.; Cleveland; Berlin; Warsaw; and Israel. Neustein moved back to New York in 1979.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Boots, Gallery House, Jerusalem
Boots was composed of 17,000 pairs of army boots piled up in the gallery. The boots are an obvious reference to soldiers in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), but also evoke the piles of shoes of…