One of the best-known American artists, Roy Lichtenstein created some of the most recognizable images of the pop-art movement. His comic-strip-inspired paintings appropriated elements of popular culture, repositioning them in the context of high art as a rebuke to prevailing abstract expressionist aesthetics. Lichtenstein, born and raised in New York, taught at the State University of New York at Oswego and at Rutgers University during the late 1950s and early 1960s, thereafter dedicating himself entirely to making art. Lichtenstein found commercial success throughout his long and prolific career, and his work continues to be widely collected and exhibited in the United States and abroad.
In the late 1970s, after a period in which he painted only in black and white, Held began using bright colors in his paintings of hard-edged geometric shapes, enabling him to explore space, volume…
The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers, printed in Amsterdam by David de Castro Tartas, proclaims the pro-Sabbatean beliefs that were then widespread in the Amsterdam Jewish community…
In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…