Human Expressionism. The Human Figure and the Jewish Experience

Exhibition catalogue "Human Expressionism. The Human Figure and the Jewish Experience" held at the musée Tavet-Delacour, France (April 6 to june 29, 2008).

This book is dedicated to the various aspects of their artistic endeavours that were influenced by their Jewish roots, and most notably the representation of the human face, a theme very close to their hearts. Their take on such a widely explored subject proved highly unusual: they used it to express love and sorrow, but also to fight nihilism.

Throughout a twentieth century that saw the gradual vanishing of the human face in art and life alike, these Jewish artists kept on celebrating it, thus creating a specific form of expressionism that is seen by many as an attempt to hang on to whatever was left of humanity in a century so utterly devoid of human values.