Recommended Reading List
Recommended Readings
Following is an evolving selection of readings that provide varying perspectives on the history of art, art institutions, and the socio-political context that condition the understanding of artists from Israel and their work.
General Reference / Politics and Society
A Century Ago, the Modern Middle East Was Born by Ted Widmer
New York Times, December 2019
Israel’s War on Culture by Marisa Mazria-Katz and Mairav Zonshine
The New York Review of Books, March 2018
A Report on the Cultural Boycott of Israel by Chen Tamir
Hyperallergic, February 2015
Cultural Sociology: ‘Enabling Periphereality’: Artistic Trajectories in a Peripheral City by Sharon Yavo-Ayalon
Cultural Sociology, Vol. 13(4) pg. 461–482, 2019
Trans-Arab-Jew: A Look beyond the Boundaries of In- Between Identities by Ido Katri
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 3, August 2019
Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices by Ella Shohat
Duke University Press, 2006
After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture by Ammiel Alacaly
University of Minnesota Press, 1993
Artists, Activists, Writers: Go to Israel. Invade It by Shany Littman
Haaretz, April 2019
The Artists Who United Jerusalem, and Then Divided It by Nir Hasson
Haaretz, June 2018
Surveys of Art in Israel
A Century of Israeli Art by Yigal Zalmona
One Hundred Years of Art in Israel by Gideon Ofrat
WestviewPress, 1998
Art Almanac: Israel
Published by ArtAsiaPacific, 2018 & 2019
Contemporary Art in Israel
Artpremium Magazine, Winter 2018
Seven Decades of Israeli Art
Moment Magazine, May 2018
A Brief Guide to Israel’s Complex Art World from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv by Matthew Israel
Artsy, December 2015
Israeli Art Today: A Historical Overview of Israeli Art by Chen Tamir
March 2012