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Judaism and the visual image : a Jewish theology of art / / Melissa Raphael



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Autore: Raphael Melissa Visualizza persona
Titolo: Judaism and the visual image : a Jewish theology of art / / Melissa Raphael Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
Disciplina: 296.3/77
Soggetto topico: Aesthetics - Religious aspects - Judaism
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art
Jewish art and symbolism
Jews in art
Judaism and art
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-224) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. Approaches to Images in Jewish Art and Thought -- 2. Genesis 1 and the Creation of the Image -- 3. What does a Jewish Woman Look Like? Gender and Images of Jews in Art -- 4. Sublimity and Representation of the Holocaust in Art -- 5. Towards a Theology of the Holocaust Image -- 6. The Dancing Figure of Jewish History -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: "The widespread assumption that Jewish religious tradition is mediated through words, not pictures, has left Jewish art with no significant role to play in Jewish theology and ethics. Judaism and the Visual Image argues for a Jewish theology of image that, among other things, helps us re-read the creation story in Genesis 1 and to question why images of Jewish women as religious subjects appear to be doubly suppressed by the Second Commandment, when images of observant male Jews have become legitimate, even iconic, representations of Jewish holiness. Raphael further suggests that 'devout beholding' of images of the Holocaust is a corrective to post-Holocaust theologies of divine absence from suffering that are infused by a sub-theological aesthetic of the sublime. Raphael concludes by proposing that the relationship between God and Israel composes itself into a unitary dance or moving image by which each generation participates in a processive revelation that is itself the ultimate work of Jewish art."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Titolo autorizzato: Judaism and the visual image  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4725-4859-0
1-282-87674-0
9786612876745
1-4411-9056-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459051503321
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