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Gershuni Moshe |
| Moshe Gershuni is an Israeli painter and printmaker who was born in Tel Aviv in 1936. He studied at the Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv from 1960 to 1964 and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (1972-7) and at the Art Teachers' Training College in Ramat Hasharon (from 1978). His subject matter included the cultural, social and political myths that embody Israeli life. Gershuni was one of the first Israeli artists to practice conceptual art and performance art in the late 1960s, first questioning the nature of art and later the structure of society as manifested in cultural and political coercion. His themes in the 1980s ranged from the unknown soldier to the plight of the Jew forced to assimilate into a hostile society. Gershuni touched also on such issues as immigration and the transplantation of European into Israeli culture. |
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