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hat do we ask of an art
book? On the most basic
level, you might expect
to gain a certain amount of aesthetic
pleasure from perusing such a volume,
the chance to leisurely dwell over
works you might never actually see
in your lifetime, very often lovingly
reproduced on heavy stock paper
that brings out all the hues and tonal
subtleties employed by great artists.
The book might be an object of
beauty in itself, well-produced and
bound, and that, too, might give a
book-lover a considerable measure of
sensory delight. These days, art books,
being the works of enlightened aca-
demics, also may provide intellectual
stimulation through a series of wide-
ranging essays that accompany what
is often a bountiful sampling of art of

all types.
My Grandparents, My Parents and
I: Jewish Art and Culture by Edward
van Voolen, recently issued by one of
my favorite publishers, Prestel, at $60,
accomplishes all these things, but it's
like no other art book I know of in
that it goes far beyond even these con-
siderable accomplishments.
The title is of note. It refers to the
Frida Kahlo work, reproduced on the
cover. Completed in 1936, this painting
is also known as Family Tree, and with
its depiction of roots and connections
between and among people neatly
sums up many of the modern preoc-
cupations examined in this consider-
able project.
Voolen's book wishes to look at how
Jews have expressed themselves in
the visual arts — both in a religious
and secular sense — for more than
2,000 years. This alone is a daunting
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