Harvey breverman biography
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By Jason E. Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions, Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum
For the Jewish American Heritage Month, the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum (RCCAM) is highlighting works currently on display in the Art & Architecture History Capstone exhibition, Experiencing the Divine: Devotional Practices of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Two works by Harvey Breverman, titled Preparation: The Rabbi and Mystery of a Prayer Shawl II (Sanguine), are in the Art Museum’s permanent collection and reflect the artist’s background as an American Jew.
In researching these two works for the exhibition, students Jessica Pierce and Logan Bowers contributed interpretive writings provided here to offer a context for Harvey Breverman and his work in representing Judaism:
Harvey Breverman (American, b. )
Preparation: The Rabbi, 20th century
Oil on canvas, 32 x 28 inches
Gift of William Murstein
Wearing a kippah (kee-pah), or “skullcap” and tallit (tahl-eet), or “pra
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Harry Braverman
Harry Braverman (December 9, – August 2, )[1] was an American Marxist, worker, political economist and revolutionary. Born in New York City to a working-class family, Braverman worked in a variety of metal smithing industries before becoming an editor at Grove Press, and later Monthly Review Press, where he worked until his death at the age of 55 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.[2] Braverman is most widely known for his book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century,[3] "a text that literally christened the emerging field of labor process studies" and which in turn "reinvigorated intellectual sensibilities and revived the study of the work process in fields such as history, sociology, economics, political science, and human geography."[4]:&#;33&#;
Political struggle and development
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Born in Pittsburgh in , Harvey Breverman went to Carnegie-Mellon University where he received his B.F.A. in From to Breverman served with Army Special Services in Korea, and in he earned an M.F.A. from Ohio University. The following year he moved to Buffalo with his wife Deborah, a long-time teacher in the Amherst Central school district. The move was prompted bygd a position Breverman was offered at the University of Buffalo, and he has been teaching art there ever since.
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In , Breverman was appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Art bygd the State University of New York Board of Trustees.
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