Cippino; spericolato e impavido passerotto; vive nel bosco di Tuberland e lascia sempre tutti stupefatti per le sue ardue imprese. Un piccolo; dal grande coraggio. Affronta il pericolo con caparbietagrave; pur sapendo di rischiare la vita.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Fine addition to a virtually barren fieldBy drkhimxzWhile Baigell has made contributions to art history related to American developments with both general histories and monographs on particular authors; no doubt the most valuable of his books; written and edited; have been those exploring the fascinating and yet uncultivated area of The Jewish Artist. Fine publications exist on the most internationally prominent of these; the abstract expressionists and their successors in the latter part of the twentieth century; but little has been done on the group mostly born in the period from 1885-1915; many of whom were immigrants and many of whom; in one way or another; were associated with New York City for some or all of their careers. They faced the crises of immigrant adjustment; of minority status; of the Great Depression; and of a holocaust in which many lost family left behind in Europe and all faced the fact that a people with whom they were identified were being annihilated not for what they had done but for what they were born to be. Baigell tells the story with brevity; clarity and considerable insight; from the early 20th century beginning with pioneers like Max Weber; Abe Walkowitz and Bill Zorach; through the age of Ben Shahn; the Soyer brothers; Abe Harriton; then the youngest overlapping with them; such as Jack Levine and Leonard Baskin; to the latest in that long line. Of course; not excluded are the abstract expressionists and those who were; and remained; European; although spending some time in the United States (usually when escape from Europe was a necessity). As he freely admits; scholarship on original sources is still in its infancy. This work will hopefully contribute to stimulating the interest of younger scholars. Non-scholarly readers; for whom the book is written; will; I believe; be encouraged to read the other books he has written or collaborated on; which contain more intensive studies of the complex motivations and very difficult adjustments which marked the lives of these creative artists; most of whom are fading from the collective memory by reason of all those factors whichgo into distinguishing the remembered from the forgotten (perhaps; the least of which; is the quality of their work);In the interest of fair disclosure; I should mention that all the artists specifically named; and many others similar in background to them; were represented in my own art collection which; too; is now only a fading memory.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Baigells book is splendid; and higher-quality academic writingBy Sidney Orr....however; it was a terrible decision to publish the illustrations only in BLACK AND WHITE.This does not do the works; the artists; or the book; a service.