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In the 1960s, Howard Kanovitz began using photographs to develop his own distinct style of photorealism. He made drawings of the figures in photographs and abstracted them into fields of color…
The Liberation of Jerusalem, created shortly after the Six Day War, was a bold statement by its artist Solomon (Shlomo) Dreizner, at a time when any expression of support for Israel by Soviet Jews…
Sholem Aleichem’s grotesque story “The Haunted Tailor” tells of a poor, witless tailor who is sent on a mission to buy a milk-giving goat, who turns out to be possessed. In the Soviet Union, it was…
Daniel Cohn-Bendit was a student leader during the protest in France in May 1968, when up to ten million workers went on strike and 800,000 people marched through Paris. Here he vaults a police…
The street photographer Garry Winogrand said he was motivated by wanting “to see what the world looks like in photographs.” He didn’t regard his photos as identical with the reality of the scenes he…
In the 1960s, Audrey Flack began to paint photorealistic pictures with social and political themes, reproducing photographs of people from all walks of life, as well as everyday objects. Farb Family…
Leon Levinstein, widely admired for his street photography, held himself at a distance from the art world and never produced a book of his work. He kept his day job as a graphic designer and went out…
Eric Bulatov created many paintings that paired nature scenes with Soviet slogans, suggesting that the control of the Soviet regime was everywhere, in every corner of its citizens’ lives. In Red…
Fromet Guggenheim (1737–1812) was the eldest daughter of a merchant from Hamburg. She married the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn in 1762. Exceptional for the time, theirs was not an arranged marriage…
Born in Aldgate, London, bare-knuckled pugilist Daniel Mendoza was the first Jew in England to become heavyweight champion, a title that he defended twice before losing it to John Jackson on a ninth…
