Author

Contributions

  • Holzhandler, Dora, 1928- - Contributor

Publication

1997 - Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

32,000 words, Guess

Page Count

128 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing4588368

Classifications

  • DDC759.2
  • LCCND497.H822 V36 1997

Description

Dora Holzhandler's paintings are rooted in the mystical perception of reality and depict a timeless Jewish world, often with a Buddhist quality. The twin strands of Holzhandler's spiritual identity - Jewish and Buddhist - are strongly evidenced in her extraordinary work and explored in this superb volume, the first monograph on the art of Dora Holzhandler. Holzhandler's richly decorative paintings of everyday, often specifically Jewish, life, are reminiscent of Polish folk art, Indian and Persian miniatures and Roman mosaics. Inspired by Allen Ginsberg's poetry, Jack Kerouac's Buddhist-Catholic novels, Aldous Huxley's study of visionary perception and LSD-transfigured ways of seeing, and essays on the mystical path by a Catholic monk, Dora Holzhandler draws no distinction between the sacred and mundane.

Subjects

Topics

Themes, motivesPrimitivism in artArt, themes, motives, etc.Criticism and interpretationPrimitivism in art -- EnglandHolzhandler, Dora, 1928- -- Themes, motives

Places

England

People

Dora Holzhandler (1928-)

Other Editions

  • Dora HolzhandlerOverlook Press1997-01-01

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