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In CREATING WALL HANGINGS, author-artist Judith Weinshall Liberman explains how to create wall hangings that are both striking and meaningful. Using over two dozen of her own Holocaust Wall Hangings as examples, Ms. Liberman takes the reader step by step through the process of creating wall hangings, from the selection of the background fabric to the final step of exhibiting the works. The text accompanying the images in CREATING WALL HANGINGS provides a clear guide for creating multi-faceted works of art.
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In this book, author-artist Judith Weinshall Liberman presents over twenty of the self portraits she created during her long career in visual art. The self portraits in SELF PORTRAITS, painted over the thirty year period between the 1960s and the 1990s, reveal a great deal not only about Ms. Liberman's looks and personality but also about her devotion to her craft. The text accompanying the images in SELF PORTRAITS throws light on the variety of mediums used by the artist in creating her artworks.
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MIRIAM'S DIARY tells the story of a Jewish girl who came to the United States from Palestine in 1947, before the establishment of the State of Israel, to study at a university. The goal of her studies was to enable her to eventually return to her homeland equipped with the knowledge and perspective required for her to be of service to her country. From her diary, we learn about her feelings of alienation while attending college in America and about her concern for her loved ones back home. By tracking the events happening in her homeland before, during, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, her diary allows us to see the birth of Israel from the point of view of someone who went through it while living thousands of miles away. The book leads us through Miriam's emotional turmoil and to her decision to return prematurely to her country. MIRIAM'S DIARY is a must-read for anyone interested in an intimate view of the struggle for the establishment of the State of Israel.
Self Portraits of a Holocaust Artist
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HOLOCAUST PAINTINGS introduces the reader to a series of paintings about the Holocaust which the artist-author Judith Weinshall Liberman created during her long career in visual art. The series is in the permanent collection of the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The paintings are here presented to the reader for the first time in one volume. The clear text and the accompanying images of the artworks combine to throw light on the scope and meaning of the artist-author's paintings about the Holocaust.
ABOUT THE BOOK
HOLOCAUST PAINTINGS introduces the reader to a series of paintings about the Holocaust which the artist-author Judith Weinshall Liberman created during her long career in visual art. The series is in the permanent collection of the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The paintings are here presented to the reader for the first time in one volume. The clear text and the accompanying images of the artworks combine to throw light on the scope and meaning of the artist-author's paintings about the Holocaust.
Homo Sapiens: A Visual Commentary About Human Violence
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HOMO SAPIENS introduces the reader to a series of mixed media paintings about human violence. The series was created by artist-author Judith Weinshall Liberman during her long career in visual art and is in the collection of Queensboro Community College in Bayside, New York. The paintings, which feature a prairie dog as their subject, are here presented to the reader for the first time in one volume. The clear text and the accompanying images of the artworks combine to throw light on the scope and meaning of the artist-author's paintings about human violence.
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Heavenly Gardens: Baha'i Gardens of Haifa
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The magnificent Baha'i Gardens of Haifa, Israel, have been listed by the UNESCO World Heritage Commission as a World Heritage Site. Members of the Baha'i faith have established their world center in the city of Haifa and maintain their shrine in the Gardens. In HEAVENLY GARDENS, Judith Weinshall Liberman, a native of Haifa, presents her unique insight into the symbolic meaning of the Gardens by probing the relationship between tenets of the Baha'i faith, such as the oneness of humankind, and various elements in the design of the Baha'i Gardens of Haifa.
An Introduction to My Judaica Art
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AN INTRODUCTION TO MY JUDAICA ART introduces the reader to the array of artworks inspired by Jewish history which were created over a period of four decades by artist-author Judith Weinshall Liberman. For the first time ever, the wide variety of subjects and art mediums tackled by Ms. Liberman during her long career in visual art can be found discussed and illustrated in one concise volume. The clear text and the accompanying images of dozens of artworks combine to throw light on the scope and meaning of this prolific artist-
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ANNE FRANK IN MY ART introduces the reader to the array of artworks about Anne Frank which the artist-author Judith Weinshall Liberman created during her long career in visual art. Works about Anne Frank from Ms. Liberman's various series about the Holocaust - the HOLOCAUST PAINTINGS, the HOLOCAUST WALL HANGINGS, and the SELF PORTRAITS OF A HOLOCAUST ARTIST - are here presented to the reader for the first time in one volume. The clear text and the accompanying images of the artworks combine to throw light on the scope and meaning of the artist-author's artwork about Anne Frank, the Holocaust's best-known, young victim.
My Life Into Art: An Autobiography
FORWARD By Judith Weinshall Liberman
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In this moving autobiography, Judith Weinshall Liberman traces her personal development as a woman and as an artist over the forty-five year period between 1947 and 1992. This development is seen against the backdrop of the important historical events of the time. It was in 1947, before the State of Israel was established, that Judith Weinshall, an unsophisticated 18-year old girl born in Palestine, arrived in the United States to pursue higher education. In accordance with her parents' wishes, she was to study journalism, while at the same time absorbing Western values, so she could contribute to her nation's cause when she returned to her native land. Despite deep misgivings about her studies, and notwithstanding her natural attraction to art, she spent seven long years in the United States studying journalism, political science and law and earning several degrees. Eventually she realized that she had to find her personal path rather than pursue the one laid out for her by others. She began studying art, and over the following few decades created numerous series of artworks about the human condition. While tracing her personal and artistic development, this autobiography reveals the artist's thinking in creating her artworks and illuminates the close relationship between her life and her art. Although she had not served her people in the way her parents may have anticipated, she felt that through her art she was serving not only the cause of her people but that of all decent people everywhere.
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Holocaust Wall Hangings is an unusual book in that it combines reproductions of a series of unique, multimedia artworks about the Holocaust with analytical essays about these works written by three noted experts, each from a different perspective: the Holocaust and Holocaust art, art history, and Jewish art. The artist's vision of the Holocaust as expressed in the Holocaust Wall Hangings is here represented by reproductions of forty-five of Judith Weinshall Liberman's artworks as well as by detailed annotations discussing the historical background and the art pertaining to each. Her approach is also illuminated in an essay entitled "How I Create Them", in which the artist takes the reader step by step through the process of creating her wall hangings. Judging by the reviews and comments about the Holocaust Wall Hangings during exhibitions of the artworks in museums and other public institutions in the United States and abroad, this book should be of interest to people of varied cultural backgrounds and a broad range of ages—from elementary school to old age. Holocaust Wall Hangings is a book that should appeal to students of history as well as to art lovers and to artists seeking a unique new form of expression.
The Holocaust Wall Hangings Video
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The Holocaust Wall Hangings - a collection of large textile artwork by Judith Weinshall Liberman. The video was directed and produced with the artist, Judith Liberman, about the textile artwork she created in this collection of large fabric pieces. The artist's one woman show was staged at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. The scope and scale of these works asked for a larger production than the usual art gallery video - the story of the Holocaust was displayed in so many ways by this collection that it called for producing a program that would let the feelings and history of the tragic event be retold along with details of how the artwork was created. The video explores how the art becomes the voice of social commentary, and serves as an example of finding and using that voice to express what is important in life. Video production is by Bob Lewis of Video Visuals Inc. Music by Jagan Nath Khalsa. Narration by Leonard Zola.
The Holocaust Wall Hangings Exhibit Catalog
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Yad Vashem Museum Jerusalem, Israel, 1992
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A feature film was produced by award-winning producer/director Samuel Harps, using the play EMPATHY as a screenplay.
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