An exhibit at the Israel Museum examines the relationship between Japanese and Israeli art. Here’s the curator, Mira Lapidot:
“While the majority of these artists do not have intimate knowledge of Japan, the culture has come to represent a kind of fantasy world, distant from their present reality in Israel. This can either be seen as a form of escapism or – by adopting Japanese aesthetics – offer a softening “filter” to look at the demanding and political reality in Israel.”
I’d say that’s true of the U.S. as well.
About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started
MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for
School Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly Comics Week,
Comic Book Resources, the
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and
Robot 6. She also edits the
Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
