LEADER 03701nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910826412003321 005 20240313043423.0 010 $a0-8047-8436-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804784368 035 $a(CKB)2670000000242652 035 $a(EBL)1031940 035 $a(OCoLC)818815038 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755525 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12310751 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755525 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730728 035 $a(PQKB)10975837 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000799533 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12279144 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000799533 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10763809 035 $a(PQKB)23292342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1031940 035 $a(DE-B1597)564049 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804784368 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1031940 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10604679 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769703 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000242652 100 $a20120309d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDreaming of Michelangelo $eJewish variations on a modern theme /$fAsher D. Biemann 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-6882-X 311 0 $a0-8047-6881-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPrefatory Note --$t1. The Unrequited Eros: Michelangelo and the Jewish Love for Italy --$t2. The Dream of the Moving Moses: Michelangelo and Jewish Statue-Love --$t3. Fragments of Desire: Michelangelo and the Aesthetics of Jewish Thought --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aDreaming 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. 606 $aJewish aesthetics$zGermany$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aJewish aesthetics$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJews$zGermany$xIntellectual life$y19th century 606 $aJews$zGermany$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aJewish aesthetics$xHistory 615 0$aJewish aesthetics$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life 676 $a305.892/404309034 700 $aBiemann$b Asher D$01636421 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826412003321 996 $aDreaming of Michelangelo$94050365 997 $aUNINA