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Through this, they met at a juncture that was both explicitly Jewish, and profoundly political. As this dissertation argues, the work of both artists, formed by the crucible of twentieth-century Jewish life, probe identity and origin and ultimately reveal both as phantasms: illusions that operate both individually and collectively. Despite their immateriality, phantasms are linked to the social realm; as Theodor Herzl noted in his Zionist utopia Aultneuland, “Dreams are not so different from Deeds as some may think.” In their traversing the boundaries between phantasm and history, art and the social, Dreams and Deeds, Chagall’s and Modigliani’s work participated in the identity politics of their time, and charted the seismic transformation of Jewish life in the modern age."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Between Deeds and Dreams: Identity as Phantasm (Marc Chagall's and Amedeo Modigliani's Diasporic Identities)"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Katz, Jonathan","Art"],"dc:creator":["Koch, Maryclaire; 0000-0003-2381-2565"],"dc:date":["2019-10-29T16:47:58Z","2019","2019-08-06 09:40:24"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","This dissertation juxtaposes Marc Chagall’s (1887–1985) body of work with that of Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) and locates them both within their social-historical contexts. 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