Papers by Celia Rabinovitch
The Winnipeg Art Gallery eBooks, 1981
Legge examines each artist's work, focusing on their use of painting to produce imaginative and s... more Legge examines each artist's work, focusing on their use of painting to produce imaginative and surreal images of the ordinary. Artist's statements. Biographical notes. 1 bibl. ref.
Oxford University Press eBooks, 2003
Celia Rabinovitch has produced a bold and innovative critique of the established ... In an import... more Celia Rabinovitch has produced a bold and innovative critique of the established ... In an important chapter she discusses Bruno Bettelheim's accusation that English translators ... In the occult revival in late nineteenth-century Vienna, Freud's ideas form one ... The central issue for ...
The British Chess Magazine, 2022
Written from a more personal angle, this article explores the history of the Winnipeg Jewish Ches... more Written from a more personal angle, this article explores the history of the Winnipeg Jewish Chess club through the a vivid chess demonstration given by George Koltanowski in 1937, who came to know my uncle, Alec Mogle, a champion chess player in Winnipeg. The influence of serendipity, coincidence, and personality in the Winnipeg Jewish Chess Club. The Pages 201-295
The British Chess Magazine, 2022
The White Queen of New York - an art historian talks to the British Chess Magazine about the idea... more The White Queen of New York - an art historian talks to the British Chess Magazine about the ideas connecting chess and design in the art of Carol Janeway, a designer, artist, and socialite in 1940's and 1950's New York City,. Pages 751-756, in the December, 2022 issue of the British Chess Magazine.
Carol Janeway is a neglected figure in modern art history.
British Chess Magazine, 2021
An interview with artist, designer, and writer Larry List, who curated The Imagery of Chess Revis... more An interview with artist, designer, and writer Larry List, who curated The Imagery of Chess Revisited at the Noguchi Museum, in 2005-2006 with a book of the same title published by George Braziller Publishers; Illustrated edition (Nov. 1 2005) . The interview appears in the November 2021 edition of The British Chess Magazine, pages 680-688.
Art History, Duchamp's Pipe, Feb 25, 2020
A vital new interpretation of the personalities, historical forces and intellectual paradigms tha... more A vital new interpretation of the personalities, historical forces and intellectual paradigms that created Surrealist art. From archaic fetishism, found objects, dream images and free association, Surrealist artists and writerssuch as Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Meret Oppenheim and Wolfgang Paalen transformed the ordinary into the extraordinary by deliberately evoking the ambivalence of sacred power. Surrealism and the Sacred traces the conflict between the secular and sacred forces from prehistory and paganism through the Renaissance and the occult revival of the 19th century to the Surrealist movement of the 20th century. Against the tyranny of reason and the European bourgeoisie, Surrealists drew from occultism, Asian religions and mysticism, and psychoanalysis to create an uncanny and creative state of mind that continues to have a profound effect on the modern imagination. This remarkable book challenges conventional assumptions about modern art and its larger...
Legge examines each artist's work, focusing on their use of painting to produce imaginative a... more Legge examines each artist's work, focusing on their use of painting to produce imaginative and surreal images of the ordinary. Artist's statements. Biographical notes. 1 bibl. ref.
The Dictionary of Art, 1992
A biography commissioned by The Dictionary of Art, (London: Macmillan, 1992).
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Papers by Celia Rabinovitch
Carol Janeway is a neglected figure in modern art history.
Carol Janeway is a neglected figure in modern art history.
CThe journal served as a gathering force where imagination, insight, and conversation express the evolving and shifting forms of human experience. A member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) from 2009-2013, Cerise Press was published tri-quarterly. Each issue featured poetry, translations, fiction, essays, art, photography, reviews, and interviews by established and emerging writers and artists.
Rabinovitch has retraced the history of Yudell’s life’s work, curating the photographs into a new exhibit at the Manitoba Museum titled The Lost Expressionist – Nick Yudell, a Photographer Discovered.
Born in Winnipeg in 1916, Yudell was a first-generation Canadian with Jewish and Ukrainian (then a part of Russia) roots.
At the age of 12, his family gifted him a camera. Using black-and-white film, homemade lighting set-ups and an artistic eye, Yudell spent the
next decade documenting his life, relationships and home in Morden.
The resulting photos are gritty, glamourous and compelling. They demonstrate a style common to European high society but completely
alien to rural Manitoba, said Rabinovitch, who holds a Ph.D. in history of religions and a masters degree in fine arts and formerly directed the School of Art at the University of Manitoba.
“It became immediately apparent that he was an artist in his own right,” Rabinovitch said...