Publisher's Synopsis
"We agreed from the start that this exhibition would celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, but it would not be a public relations effort or 'official' view. We were interested in what contemporary artists could tell us about Israel today ... we selected artists working in just about every medium. Our basic criterion was that each artist had to have spent a substantial part of his or her life living and working. in Israel" -- Introduction, page 7.