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This portrait of Aharon Meskin (1898–1974) exemplifies Ben-Zvi’s cubist sculpture. Meskin was a leading actor in the Hebrew-language Habima Theater, who began his association with the troupe while it…
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Ze’ev Ben-Zvi
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1938
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Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass. (Its glass panels were removed a few years…
Contributor:
Yigael Tumarkin
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1975
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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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Sheep and rams frequently appear in the sculptures of Kadishman, a legacy of time spent as a shepherd in his youth. Sacrifice of Isaac is a reimagining of the biblical story of the Akedah, in which…
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Menashe Kadishman
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1985
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Ninio’s art focuses on putting everyday objects into new contexts, which change their original functions, posing questions about the nature of their reality, by opening them up to new relationships…
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Moshe Ninio
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1987
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In Love Dub, small figures climb up the walls of the gallery wearing flipper-like footwear. A similar image was replicated in a tattoo, shown in a photograph as part of the installation. Katzenstein…
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Uri Katzenstein
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1995
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This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…
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Boris Schatz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911
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Figurine of female deity, Tel Batash, 14th century BCE. Similar plaque figurines of naked women, often with breasts and genitals emphasized or with pregnant bellies, were very common in the ancient…
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Tel Batash, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Late Bronze Age, 14th Century BCE
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Figurine of calf and shrine, Ashkelon, 1600 to 1550 BCE. Some of the non-anthropomorphic figurines found at Israelite sites had religious significance, especially model shrines (such as the Model…
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Ashkelon, Land of Israel (Tel Ashkelon, Israel)
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Middle Bronze Age, 16th Century BCE
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Musicians on ritual stand, Ashdod, late 11th or early 10th century BCE. Music and dance played an important role in Israel and the ancient Near East in both daily life and special occasions such as…
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Ashdod, Land of Israel (Tel Ashdod, Israel)
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Iron Age I, Late 11th or Early 10th Century BCE