03701nam 2200709Ia 450 991082641200332120240313043423.00-8047-8436-110.1515/9780804784368(CKB)2670000000242652(EBL)1031940(OCoLC)818815038(SSID)ssj0000755525(PQKBManifestationID)12310751(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755525(PQKBWorkID)10730728(PQKB)10975837(SSID)ssj0000799533(PQKBManifestationID)12279144(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000799533(PQKBWorkID)10763809(PQKB)23292342(MiAaPQ)EBC1031940(DE-B1597)564049(DE-B1597)9780804784368(Au-PeEL)EBL1031940(CaPaEBR)ebr10604679(OCoLC)1178769703(EXLCZ)99267000000024265220120309d2012 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrDreaming of Michelangelo Jewish variations on a modern theme /Asher D. Biemann1st ed.Stanford, California Stanford University Press20121 online resource (201 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-6882-X 0-8047-6881-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Prefatory Note --1. The Unrequited Eros: Michelangelo and the Jewish Love for Italy --2. The Dream of the Moving Moses: Michelangelo and Jewish Statue-Love --3. Fragments of Desire: Michelangelo and the Aesthetics of Jewish Thought --Epilogue --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsDreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an "unrequited lover" whose work expressed loneliness and a longing for humanity's response. The modern Jewish imagination thus became consciously idolatrous. Writers brought to life—literally—Michelangelo's sculptures, seeing in them their own worldly and emotional struggles. The Moses statue in particular became an archetype of Jewish liberation politics as well as a central focus of Jewish aesthetics. And such affinities extended beyond sculpture: Jewish visitors to the Sistine Chapel reinterpreted the ceiling as a manifesto of prophetic socialism, devoid of its Christian elements. According to Biemann, the phenomenon of Jewish self-recognition in Michelangelo's work offered an alternative to the failed promises of the German enlightenment. Through this unexpected discovery, he rethinks German Jewish history and its connections to Italy, the Mediterranean, and the art of the Renaissance.Jewish aestheticsGermanyHistory19th centuryJewish aestheticsGermanyHistory20th centuryJewsGermanyIntellectual life19th centuryJewsGermanyIntellectual life20th centuryJewish aestheticsHistoryJewish aestheticsHistoryJewsIntellectual lifeJewsIntellectual life305.892/404309034Biemann Asher D1636421MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826412003321Dreaming of Michelangelo4050365UNINA