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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Published in:Approaching religion
Main Author: Raphael, Melissa 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2016]
In: Approaching religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 14-22
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judaism / The Modern / Art / Image / Destruction
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Beauty
B Judaism
B Aesthetics
B Jewish Art
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