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The Great Vehicle is one of dozens of wheeled sculptures Rantzer created for “The Zionists,” his 2001 solo exhibition at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv. The overall themes of the show were migration…
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Philip Rantzer
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2001
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Averbuch uses paving stones, railroad ties, steel, glass, and other reclaimed materials in his sculptures, repurposing them but also allowing them to retain signs of their utilitarian past. His works…
Contributor:
Ilan Averbuch
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1986
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This photograph of a bare-chested young man flexing his muscles in front of an army tent is one of the best-known images in Nes’s “Soldiers” series, an exploration of Israeli identity and masculinity…
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Adi Nes
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1996
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Shamir is known for portraits and landscapes that explore Zionist history and his own family story. Many of his paintings are set in Kfar Yehoshua in the Jezreel Valley, a village his family helped to…
Contributor:
Elie Shamir
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1988
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Perhaps the most iconic photograph of the Six Day War is this one, of three Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall shortly after its capture by the Israeli army on the third day of the war. A few…
Contributor:
David Rubinger
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1967
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This mizraḥ (an ornamental wall plaque used to indicate the direction of Jerusalem) includes a map of the Land of Israel surrounded by sacred sites and vistas. These elaborate mizraḥ sheets were often…
Contributor:
Abraham Monsohn
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1900