The category of Jewish Art History cannot simply be subsumed into a generalized European art history. The modern artist as the author-agent of the work of art is a relatively new persona and figure for Jews, emerging only in the nineteenth century along with greater historical movements of emancipation for Jews in Europe. My great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki (1881?-1943?) was split between affinities: on the one hand, he was a painter of traditional Jewish life in Poland, settling his gaze upon s...
The category of Jewish Art History cannot simply be subsumed into a generalized European art history. The modern artist as the author-agent of the work of art is a relatively new persona and figure for Jews, emerging only in the nineteenth century along with greater historical movements of emancipation for Jews in Europe. My great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki (1881?-1943?) was split between affinities: on the one hand, he was a painter of traditional Jewish life in Poland, settling his gaze upon s...
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