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New York exemplifies the precisionist, futurist style favored by Lozowick in the 1920s. Like works by other precisionist artists, this lithograph reduces the elements of a cityscape into simple…
Contributor:
Louis Lozowick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1925–1926
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The [Babylonian] Talmud in tractate Sanhedrin [109b] brings a statement that when a stranger came to the city of Sodom, he would be placed on a bed. Someone who was taller than the bed would have his…
Contributor:
Yitsḥak Morganstern
Places:
Sokolov, Russian Empire (Sokolov, Czech Republic)
Date:
1918
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By the time she created this statue of David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of the State of Israel, Chana Orloff had moved away from the cubist style she favored early in her career to a more…
Contributor:
Chana Orloff
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1949
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His aged back bent under the burden of six decades, forever trying to crumple his weary countenance into furrows long since smoothed away, what possible kind of Aladdin is our old mutual…
Contributor:
Abram Efros
Places:
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918