Jewish Texts On The Visual Arts
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Jewish Texts On The Visual Arts
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Author : Vivian B. Mann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Jewish Texts On The Visual Arts written by Vivian B. Mann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Art categories.
Jewish texts are a hidden treasure of information on Jewish art and artists, the patronage and use of art, and the art created by non-Jews. Most of these texts are written in Hebrew and Aramaic. Those scholars able to read them often do not understand their art-historical importance, while many art historians who would understand the references to art are hindered by language barriers. Jewish Texts on the Visual Arts includes fifty translated texts dating from the bibilical period to the twentieth century. They touch on issues such as iconoclasm, the art of the 'Other', artists and their practices, synagogue architecture, Jewish ceremonial art, and collecting. Through the introduction and essays that accompany each text, Vivian Mann articulates the importance and relevance of these sources to our understanding of art history.
Image Action And Idea In Contemporary Jewish Art
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Author : Ben Schachter
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2017-12-15
Image Action And Idea In Contemporary Jewish Art written by Ben Schachter and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Art categories.
Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism and interpretation, Ben Schachter advocates instead a new approach focused on action and process. Departing from the traditional interpretation of the Second Commandment, Schachter addresses abstraction, conceptual art, performance art, and other styles that do not rely on imagery for meaning. He examines Jewish art through the concept of melachot—work-like “creative activities” as defined by the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. Showing the similarity between art and melachot in the active processes of contemporary Jewish artists such as Ruth Weisberg, Allan Wexler, Archie Rand, and Nechama Golan, he explores the relationship between these artists’ methods and Judaism’s demanding attention to procedure. A compellingly written challenge to traditionalism, Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art makes a well-argued case for artistic production, interpretation, and criticism that revels in the dual foundation of Judaism and art history.
The Visual Dimension
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Author : Clare Moore
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-11
The Visual Dimension written by Clare Moore and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Art categories.
This book looks at art historical explorations, matters of archival legitimacy, the survival of fakes and forgeries and many other aspects of Jewish art. It commemorates the life and work of Isaiah Shachar through the medium of papers given at the first international conference on Jewish art.
Imagining Jewish Art
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Author : Aaron Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Imagining Jewish Art written by Aaron Rosen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Short-listed for the Art and Christian Enquiry/Mercers' International Book Award 2009: 'a book which makes an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts'. What does modern Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art in Biblical illustrations and other traditional subjects, Rosen sets out to discover Jewishness in unlikely places. How, he asks, have modern Jewish painters explored their Jewish identity using an artistic past which is- by and large - non-Jewish? In this new book we encounter some of the great works of Western art history through Jewish eyes. We see Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece re-imagined by Marc Chagall (1887-1985), traces of Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca in Philip Guston (1913-1980), and images by Diego Velazquez and Paul Cezanne studiously reworked by R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007). This highly comparative study draws on theological, philosophical and literary sources from Franz Rosenzweig to Franz Kafka and Philip Roth. Rosen deepens our understanding not only of Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj but also of how art might serve as a key resource for rethinking such fundamental Jewish concepts as family, tradition, and homeland.
Jewish Art And Culture
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Author : Edward van Voolen
language : en
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Jewish Art And Culture written by Edward van Voolen and has been published by Prestel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
"This lavishly illustrated book explores the Jewish involvement in the visual arts over the last two thousand years. Each image tells a story about one of the world's oldest cultures still in existence and presents a unique insight into the multifaceted and vital world of Judaism." "Through this often surprising collection of illustrations and texts the reader finds out what Judaism, art and culture had to do with each other in ancient times and still continue to do so today, and discovers that this world belongs more to us than we had ever imagined before delving into this book."--BOOK JACKET.
Jewish Cultural Aspirations
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Author : Bruce Zuckerman
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2013
Jewish Cultural Aspirations written by Bruce Zuckerman and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
In the late nineteenth century in Europe and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper middle class--particularly the more affluent families--began to enter the cultural spheres of public life, especially in major cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York, and London. While many aspects of society were closed to them, theater, the visual arts, music, and art publication were far more inviting, especially if they involved challenging aspects of modernity that might be less attractive to Gentile society. Jews had far less to lose in embracing new forms of expression, and they were very attracted to what was regarded as the universality of cultural expression. Ultimately, these new cultural ideals had an enormous influence on art institutions and artistic manifestations in America and may explain why Jews have been active in the arts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to a degree totally out of proportion to their presence in the US population. Jewish cultural activities and aspirations form the focus of the contributions to this volume. Invited authors include senior figures in the field such as Matthew Baigell and Emily Bilski, alongside authors of a younger generation such as Daniel Magilow and Marcie Kaufman. There is also an essay by noted Los Angeles artist and photographer Bill Aron. The guest editor of the volume, Ruth Weisberg, provides an Introduction that places the individual contributions in context.
Jewish Aspects In Avant Garde
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Author : Mark H. Gelber
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-07-19
Jewish Aspects In Avant Garde written by Mark H. Gelber and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume deals with the significance of the avant-garde(s) for modern Jewish culture and the impact of the Jewish tradition on the artistic production of the avant-garde, be they reinterpretations of literary, artistic, philosophical or theological texts/traditions, or novel theoretical openings linked to elements from Judaism or Jewish culture, thought, or history.
Jewish Icons
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Author : Richard I. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998
Jewish Icons written by Richard I. Cohen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. In these images and objects that reflect, refract, and also shape daily experience, he finds new and illuminating insights into Jewish life in the modern period. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. In one such manifestation, orthodox Jewry made icons of popular tabbis, creating images that helped to bridge the sacred and the secular. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers. Cohen's exploration of early Jewish exhibitions, museums, and museology opens a new window on the relationship of art to Jewish culture and society.
The Nation Without Art
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Author : Margaret Rose Olin
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
The Nation Without Art written by Margaret Rose Olin and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Art categories.
"Case studies explore the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem, whose efforts to use art to create a Jewish nationality in Palestine raise important issues of national identity, and the discovery in 1932 of the third-century Synagogue of Dura Europos, a symbol for scholars struggling against the Third Reich. Among those who supported or challenged concepts of Jewish art, Margaret Olin considers the nineteenth-century rabbinical scholar David Kaufmann, the philosopher Martin Buber, the critic Clement Greenberg, and the filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
The Artless Jew
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Author : Kalman P. Bland
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2001-07-02
The Artless Jew written by Kalman P. Bland and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-02 with Religion categories.
Conventional wisdom holds that Judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "graven images," the dictates of monotheism, and historical happenstance. This intellectual history of medieval and modern Jewish attitudes toward art and representation overturns the modern assumption of Jewish iconophobia that denies to Jewish culture a visual dimension. Kalman Bland synthesizes evidence from medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, poetry, biblical commentaries, travelogues, and law, concluding that premodern Jewish intellectuals held a positive, liberal understanding of the Second Commandment and did, in fact, articulate a certain Jewish aesthetic. He draws on this insight to consider modern ideas of Jewish art, revealing how they are inextricably linked to diverse notions about modern Jewish identity that are themselves entwined with arguments over Zionism, integration, and anti-Semitism. Through its use of the past to illuminate the present and its analysis of how the present informs our readings of the past, this book establishes a new assessment of Jewish aesthetic theory rooted in historical analysis. Authoritative and original in its identification of authentic Jewish traditions of painting, sculpture, and architecture, this volume will ripple the waters of several disciplines, including Jewish studies, art history, medieval and modern history, and philosophy.