Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art |
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| Author:
| Schachter, Ben |
| Series title: | Dimyonot Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-271-07912-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2017 |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.95 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......