The creation of beauty by its destruction: the idoloclastic aesthetic in modern and contemporary Jewish art
Contemporary commentators are well aware that the Jewish tradition is not an aniconic one. Far from suppressing art, the Second Commandment produces it. And not just abstract art; it also uses halakhically mandated idoloclastic techniques to produce figurative images that at once cancel and restore...
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| Language: | English |
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Donner Institute
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Approaching Religion |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.fi/ar/article/view/67587 |