| The third edition of a decorated volume of silhouettes created by Bezalel artist Meir Gur-Aryeh (1891-1951). It is accompanied by the popular songs of the Third Aliyah period inside decorative frames and depicts the life and vision of the road-building halutzim in images and words. "The album-like coupling of the poetic texts with Gur-Aryeh's silhouettes make this cultural product into a national one, depicting the poetry of the halutzim as representative of a popular stratum of the people. With the exception of three texts, all the poems are anonymous."
The silhouettes, a popular form of Jewish folk-art, has been utilized by Gur-Aryeh to create vivid scenes of work and rest which has served to influence the work of many other Israeli artists associated with the Bezalel Academy or with the Kibbutz Movement. The book was edited and prefaced by Mordechai Narkiss, the first curator of the first Israeli museum. |
