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“One Front, One Nation: Posters from the Zionism 2000 Collection, 1920–1960” , written by Batsheva Goldman-Ida

“One Front, One Nation: Posters from the Zionism 2000 Collection, 1920–1960” , written by... “One Front, One Nation: Posters from the Zionism 2000 Collection, 1920–1960” [no pagination]. Curator: Batsheva Goldman-Ida. 2012. Exhibiting Zionism in Israel Israel has a problem. Museologically speaking, that is. Israel’s museums are the only cultural entities in the country (unlike media, theater, and music), whose content of exhibitions and catalogues are protected by law, making Israel’s museums uniquely positioned to shape the national image. 1 Yet, Israel’s museums have outgrown their roots in internal nation-building to position themselves more firmly in international art historical circles. The dissonance between the museum’s Zionist origins and its present institutionalized post-Zionism fuels the discomfort around the archiving and exhibition of the country’s early visual culture. How should the museum’s post-Zionist community, which looks askance at accounts of collective enterprises and nation-building, meaningfully archive and exhibit the culture that shaped the Zionist ethos of Israel as a land unapologetically for Jews? This is not a question of disinterested aesthetics. Israeli museums tend to exhibit the country’s early visual culture in short-lived Independence Day (Yom ha-Atzmaut) celebrations, a strategy which ghettoizes Zionist visual culture at the same time that it demonstrates the museum’s relationship with the state. In 1983 the Museums Law came about http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Images Brill

“One Front, One Nation: Posters from the Zionism 2000 Collection, 1920–1960” , written by Batsheva Goldman-Ida

Images , Volume 8 (1): 112 – Dec 4, 2014

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Exhibition Reviews
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1871-7993
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1871-8000
DOI
10.1163/18718000-12340042
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“One Front, One Nation: Posters from the Zionism 2000 Collection, 1920–1960” [no pagination]. Curator: Batsheva Goldman-Ida. 2012. Exhibiting Zionism in Israel Israel has a problem. Museologically speaking, that is. Israel’s museums are the only cultural entities in the country (unlike media, theater, and music), whose content of exhibitions and catalogues are protected by law, making Israel’s museums uniquely positioned to shape the national image. 1 Yet, Israel’s museums have outgrown their roots in internal nation-building to position themselves more firmly in international art historical circles. The dissonance between the museum’s Zionist origins and its present institutionalized post-Zionism fuels the discomfort around the archiving and exhibition of the country’s early visual culture. How should the museum’s post-Zionist community, which looks askance at accounts of collective enterprises and nation-building, meaningfully archive and exhibit the culture that shaped the Zionist ethos of Israel as a land unapologetically for Jews? This is not a question of disinterested aesthetics. Israeli museums tend to exhibit the country’s early visual culture in short-lived Independence Day (Yom ha-Atzmaut) celebrations, a strategy which ghettoizes Zionist visual culture at the same time that it demonstrates the museum’s relationship with the state. In 1983 the Museums Law came about

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Published: Dec 4, 2014

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