Title & Author:

Facing the new world : Jewish portraits in colonial and federal America / Richard Brilliant [exhibition curator and editor] ; with an essay by Ellen Smith ; research assistance provided by Elizabeth Lamb Clark.

Publication:

New York : Jewish Museum ; Munich : Prestel, [1997]
©1997

Description:

xv, 111 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits, genealogical tables ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 21, 1997-January 11, 1998 and the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, February 19-May 24, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107) and indexes.
Lenders to the exhibition -- Foreword / Joan Rosenbaum -- Acknowledgments / Kathryn Potts -- Essays. Portraits as silent claimants : Jewish class aspirations and representational strategies in colonial and Federal America / Richard Brilliant ; Portraits of a community : the image and experience of early American Jews / Ellen Smith -- Color plates -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Appendix. Chronology : highlights of early American Jewish history, 1585-1830 ; Map : Jewish communities in America at the time of the Revolutionary War ; Table : estimated Jewish population of the United States, 1654-1830 ; Genealogies : Levy-Franks family, Etting/Gratz families ; Selected bibliography : early American portraiture ; Selected bibliography : early American Jewish history -- Index of portrait subjects -- Index of artists -- Board of trustees of the Jewish Museum -- Contributors -- Photo credits.
English.

Exhibitions:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 21, 1997-January 11, 1998 and the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, February 19-May 24, 1998.

Summary:

"Facing the New World features important paintings by distinguished American artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Charles Willson Peale, John Wesley Jarvis, and Ralph Earl. There are portraits by unknown folk-artists and some comparative paintings of non-Jewish subjects, including a work by Joshua Johnson, an accomplished African-American painter active in the Baltimore area. The book also shows examples of early American drawings, silhouettes, decorative arts, and Jewish ritual objects."--BOOK JACKET. "In a groundbreaking discussion, Richard Brilliant identifies the European models of representation that artists drew upon in their portraits of Jewish sitters, demonstrating how the self is portrayed by means of cultural roles and images, and how imagery and other modes of representation evolved over time."--BOOK JACKET. "Ellen Smith explores the tension between Jewish self-representation is portraits and the social reality of early American Jewish life. She reads the portraits as social documents, forming part of the larger material world of early American. Smith captures the texture of everyday family life and the Jewish community's relationship with the larger society, documented by diaries, letters, business records, and domestics objects that have survived to this day."--Jacket.

ISBN:

3791318632 (pbk.)
9783791318639 (pbk.)

Subject:

Jews United States Portraits Exhibitions.
Jewish portraits United States Exhibitions.
Jews United States Biography.
Portrait painting United States Exhibitions.
Juifs États-Unis Portraits Expositions.
Juifs États-Unis Biographies.
Peinture de portraits États-Unis Expositions.
Jewish portraits
Jews
Portrait painting
Bildnis
Bildband
Bildnismalerei
Ausstellung
Schilderijen.
Portretten.
Joden.
United States Biography Portraits Exhibitions.
United States
USA
Juden.
Juden (Motiv)

Form/genre:

Exhibition.
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Biographies
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Brilliant, Richard, author.
Smith, Ellen, 1951- writer of essay.
Clark, Elizabeth Lamb, researcher.
Rosenbaum, Joan, writer of foreword.
Potts, Kathryn, project director.
Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
Maryland Historical Society, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 179335
Call No.: ID E184.J5.F35; ID:98-B1791
Status: Available