Milly Heyd
Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art
Rutgers University Press,
1998.
272 pp.; 112 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.00
(0813526183)
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Milly Heyd’s Mutual Reflections is a fascinating study of the ways that African Americans and Jewish Americans have depicted each other in the visual arts over the last century. While this distinctive, complex relationship has been explored in cultural, social, religious, and political areas, this book is the first to analyze that linkage through its visual dimension in a substantive way. Heyd investigates how these artists have viewed each other in ways ranging from symbiosis...