What's Your Story?: The Israeli Art Canon and Its "Imagined Consensus".
This article explores canon, canonization, and consensus in art literature through the Israeli art field. It challenges current approaches that conceptualize canon as broad agreement. It introduces the concept of "imagined consensus" and examines art canons' relationship with fiction literature. Whi...
| Published in: | Israel Studies Review Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 77 - 100 |
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Berghahn Books
Winter2025
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