TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bland,Kalman P.
TI  - The artless Jew: medieval and modern affirmations and denials of the visual 
SN  - 1400811074
AV  - BM538.A7 B55 2000eb
U1  - 296.4/6/09 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Ten commandments
KW  - Images
KW  - Judaism and art
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Jewish art
KW  - Jewish aesthetics
KW  - Jews
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Rituals & Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Beeldende kunsten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Visualisatie
KW  - Esthetica
KW  - Jodendom
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-228) and index; Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents
N2  - Conventional wisdom holds that Judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "graven images," the dictates of monotheism, and historical happenstance. This intellectual history of medieval and modern Jewish attitudes toward art and representation overturns the modern assumption of Jewish iconophobia that denies to Jewish culture a visual dimension. Kalman Bland synthesizes evidence from medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, poetry, biblical commentaries, travelogues, and law, concluding that premodern Jewish intel
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