{"id":108472,"date":"2024-01-15T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=108472"},"modified":"2024-01-08T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:51:03","slug":"17-00-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=108472","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Szyk in Connecticut: A New Look at a 20th Century Master"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Arthur Szyk in Connecticut: A New Look at a 20th Century Master<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An image from \u201cFamily at the Seder,\u201d from the 1935 Haggadah by artist Arthur Szyk (b. 1894, Lodz, Poland\u2014d. 1951, New Canaan, CT). Photo: Courtesy of Irvin Ungar<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The work of Polish-Jewish painter Arthur Szyk, a miniaturist who savaged Nazis and championed values of human dignity through his lavishly detailed works, is having its largest exhibition in over half a century at the Fairfield University Art Museum in Connecticut.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibit is organized around the theme of human rights and features dozens of works by the famed artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Szyk\u2019s political cartoons placed Nazi genocide, tyranny, and antisemitism on the covers of America\u2019s most popular magazines during World War II. Today, his morally-minded graphic storytelling, deeply conversant in the themes and  examples of graphic storytelling, have renewed relevance, according to Irvin Ungar, the exhibition\u2019s curator emeritus of the Arthur Szyk Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cArthur Szyk continues to speak to us as a human being and as a Jew,\u201d Ungar said. \u201cHis paintings reflect his belief in the fundamental dignity of every human being.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ungar, a former pulpit rabbi and antiquarian bookseller who has devoted 25 years to scholarship on the Jewish artist Arthur Szyk, has become one the foremost experts on Szyk\u2019s life and work.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition is divided into six sections \u2014 including Human Rights and their Collapse, and The Rights of Nationhood \u2014 which reflect the diversity of Szyk\u2019s artistic and ethical commitments.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a self-described \u201csoldier in art,\u201d Szyk\u2019s work was acclaimed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt as a potent weapon \u201cagainst Hitlerism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in 1894 Lodz, in what is now Poland, Szyk grew up in an upper-middle class Jewish family of textile manufacturers, thought to be descended from a great Talmudic scholar. As a young boy, Szyk witnessed an uprising by Polish peasants \u2014 after which his father, blinded by acid thrown in his face at a factory skirmish, would never be able to see his son\u2019s colorful artworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hailing from a diverse city that was one-third Jewish, Szyk was raised with both a universalist sense of common humanity and a particularist devotion to the Jewish community. In 1940, he immigrated to America, where he went on to become the leading anti-Nazi artist of the day, ultimately casting himself as a \u201cspokesperson for the Jewish people,\u201d according to Ungar.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition is coordinated by Philip Eliasoph, a professor of art history and visual culture at Fairfield University, and is co-sponsored by the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, the Center for Jewish History, NY, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County. It runs from Sept. 29 to Dec. 16. More information can be found here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Arthur Szyk in Connecticut: A New Look at a 20th Century Master Algemeiner Staff An image from \u201cFamily at the Seder,\u201d from the 1935 Haggadah by artist Arthur Szyk (b. 1894, Lodz, Poland\u2014d. 1951, New Canaan, CT). Photo: Courtesy of Irvin Ungar The work of Polish-Jewish painter Arthur Szyk, a miniaturist who savaged Nazis and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108648,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108472\/revisions\/108648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}