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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev,
The TV Serias was created in the years 1984-1992, in both NY and Israel. It represents painted TV screens in showing diffrent subjects all in painted TV sets frames of the late 70s-mid 80s. It includs two kinds of work: 1. TV Wall. includes 20 TV screens of 210 x 300 mm hanged in 5 lines of four screens each and a small plate below them (see MA.2085.1), in which is written in Latine cursive, white letters on yellow background: recondite. The order of the screens, left to right: upper line: conversation (interview), Tables of Convenant, flag, bell; second line: rainbow, flower, bull, Tower of David; third line: book, ten, flag (Japan), nude. Fourth line: perspective (man), eye (pyramide), mask, tree; Buttom line: colunm, mask, hand of god, map (Land of Israel). 2. different screens, mostly lager than the TV Wall, created in mid 80s early 90s.
Name/Title
TV Wall | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
Acrylic on canvas
Settings
Unknown
Date
1984-1992
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction dates
Historical Origin
Unknown
Community type
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Congregation
Unknown
Site
Unknown
School/Style
Unknown|
Period
Unknown
Period Detail
Collection
Documentation / Research project
Unknown
Material/Technique
A picture is painted in various techniques of acrylic color on canvas within a painted trame of a TV set.
Material Stucture
Material Decoration
Material Bonding
Material Inscription
Material Additions
Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
Density
Colors
Construction material
Measurements
Height
415mm (TVs), 210mm (recondite), 166cm. (the whole installation).
Length
Width
Depth
Circumference
Thickness
Diameter
Weight
Axis
Panel Measurements
Subject
I | Israel | Israel, Map of
T | Tablets of the Law
N | Noah | Noah, the Flood Story | Noah Covenant with God | Rainbow
O | Ornamentation: | Foliate and floral ornaments | Flower
B | Bell
J | Jerusalem | Sites in Jerusalem: | Tower of David מגדל דוד
G | God | God, Hand of
C | Columns
| TV Israel, Map of Land of Israel, Tables of the Covenant, Rainbow, Flower, Conversation, Bell, Bull as one of the Zodiac signs, Tower of David, Book, Portrait, Ten, Nude, Perspective, Eye, Pyramide, Face, Hand of God, Tree, Column
Condition
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
Languages of inscription
Unknown
Type of grave
Unknown
0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
Scribes
Script
Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
Catchwords
Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
Coin Series
Coin Ruler
Coin Year
Denomination
Signature
Colophon
Scribal Notes
Watermark
Hallmark
Group
Group
Group
Group
Group
Trade Mark
Binding
Decoration Program
Summary and Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Exhibitions: "1978-Until Here", Ramat-Gan, 1994.
Main Surveys & Excavations
Bibliography
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Type
Documenter
| D.P. 6.95
Author of description
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Architectural Drawings
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Computer Reconstruction
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Section Head
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Language Editor
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Donor
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Negative/Photo. No.