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TMIM · Textiles and the Making of Israeli Modernism: From the Zionist Bauhuas to Feminist Art

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-05-01 → 2022-08-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 185 464 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Текстилното изкуство и дизайн в Израел между 1940-те и 90-те години се анализират чрез архиви и обекти. Това помага да се разбере връзката между националната идентичност, пола и разликата между „високото изкуство“ и занаятчицата.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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Textiles and the Making of Israeli Modernism: From the Zionist Bauhuas to Feminist Art

The historiography of Israeli visual culture has often emphasized the ongoing tension between artists' search for local roots, vis-a-vis their perception of modernism as representing universal values, as well as their desire to maintain a dialogue with the cultural centers of Europe and the United States. However, so far these scholarly debates have focused on the "fine art" fields of painting, sculpture, new media or architecture, and ignored other fields of aesthetic production. The proposed study will contribute to such debates by investigating a medium that has received little scholarly attention––textiles. Textiles and the Making of Israeli Modernism: From the “Zionist Bauhaus” to Feminist Art [TMIM] examines textile art and design produced in Israel between the 1940s-1990s, as a hotbed for a range of issues at the interstices of aesthetics, national identity, and gender. Grounded primarily in art and design history, but also in cultural history and material culture studies, this study uses unmined archival material, interviews, and objects’ analysis in order to provide a fresh perspective on some of the principal questions in Israeli art historiography, particularly the tension between the transnational and local aspects of Israeli art and designץ Textiles and the Making of Israeli Modernism contributes to the innovative field of critical craft studies, that emerged in art history in the past two decades and examines the complex relations between those fluid cultural categories: “art” and “craft.” art. Additionally, TMIM contributes to the growing literature examining the notion of "multiple modernisms" which scholars have used to refer to modernist movements that developed outside of North Atlantic centers, the study of which destabilizes cohesive perceptions of how, where, and when modernism actually developed. Research objectives: • To diversify and expand the canon of Israeli visual culture by examining a field of practice that has been overlooked by other scholars. • To better understand the historical construction of an Israeli modern national style as grounded in the tension between the local and the global. • To contribute to the growing scholarship of "multiple modernisms," using Israel as a test case. • To increase recognition of the importance of little-known women Israeli artists-designers among scholars and the general public. • To broaden the discussion and study of Israeli visual culture internationally by expanding the meagre non-Hebrew literature of the field.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The development of Israeli visual culture in the twentieth century was underscored by artists’ search for local roots, counterbalanced with their desire to dialogue with an international artistic arena. As in other settler societies such as the United States and Australia, the attempt to produce a distinguished idiom of Israeli modernism oscillated between ""nativism"" and ""universalism""––two seemingly opposed tendencies that were actually interrelated. Indeed, the historiography of Israeli visual culture has emphasized the ongoing tension between local versus global/universal influences. Nevertheless, scholars continue to debate which sources shaped Israeli modernism, and what political implications followed the incorporation of Middle Eastern traditions, European Jewish heritage, or international avant-garde movements into an Israeli national style. The proposed study would contribute to such debates by investigating a medium that has received little scholarly attention––textiles. Textiles and the Making of Israeli Modernism: From the Zionist Bauhaus to Feminist Art (TMIM) will focus on textiles produced in Israel during the 1940s–1970s within three separate yet overlapping fields of practice: an art and craft academy, a government-owned fashion brand, and the fine art establishment. TMIM will draw and expand on recent scholarship that addressed the marginalization of textiles within art history due to its association with ""low,"" commercial, or ""feminine"" work, as well as the innovative field of object-oriented anthropology that considers ""things"" as agents of cultural and social meaning. TMIM aims to establish the significance of a group of highly prolific artists-designers, all female, whose work has been entirely overlooked. It is precisely its position at the crossroads of art, craft, and commerce that makes the field of textiles fertile ground for examining the construction of modernist perceptions during this formative period of Israeli nation-building.""

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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