David Aronson

Wisconsin Bookwatch, May, 2005

David Aronson

Asher D. Biemann

Pucker Art Publications

c/o Syracuse University Press (dist.)

1600 Jamesville Ave, Syracuse, NY 13210

SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu

1879985128 $90.00 1-800-365-8929

David Aronson: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture is a truly beautiful, full-color coffee table book displaying the artistic creations of David Aronson, an immigrant artist of Jewish background who has incorporated Christological, Jewish, mystical and modernist motifs. Works from 1946 to 2002 fill the pages of this fantastic volume, surely the next best thing to viewing Aronson's art in person. Most pages are devoted entirely to pictures of art, many of which have a soft blurred color tone and fuzzy delineations that give them a feel of transition between the borders of existential planes. A medium-length essay by Dr. Asher Biemann (Assistant Professor for Modern Jewish Thought at the University of Virginia), and a transcript of a 1967 lecture by Aronson himself round out this superb showcase of a major artistic talent.