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Idolizing pictures : idolatry, iconoclasm and Jewish art / Anthony Julius.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Walter Neurath memorial lectures ; 32nd.Publication details: New York : Thames & Hudson, c2000.Description: 120 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0500282625
  • 9780500282625
Other title:
  • Idolatry, iconoclasm and Jewish art
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.039 JUL
Review: "In this book Anthony Julius derives a Jewish aesthetic from the Second Commandment. This prohibition of idolatry is not just an injunction against idol worshipping, but a call to idol breaking; it promotes a creative iconoclasm which exposes through irony inflated claims about art. Julius identifies and celebrates those Jewish works of art which by their irony subvert artistic and political idolatry. Idolizing Pictures is a manifesto for Jewish art."--BOOK JACKET.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 704.039 JUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100573576

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this ground-breaking book Anthony Julius derives a Jewish aesthetic from the Second Commandment. The prohibition of idolatry in fact contains a positive program. It is both an injunction against idol worshipping and a call to idol breaking; it promotes a creative iconoclasm that uses irony to expose inflated claims about art.

Examining works by artists such as Chagall and Shahn, Julius finds that much Jewish art does not meet this bracing criterion. But in the output of contemporary artists Komar and Melamid he identifies and celebrates an aesthetic that by irony subverts both artistic and political idolatry. Idolizing Pictures is a manifesto for Jewish art.

Includes bibliographical references.

"In this book Anthony Julius derives a Jewish aesthetic from the Second Commandment. This prohibition of idolatry is not just an injunction against idol worshipping, but a call to idol breaking; it promotes a creative iconoclasm which exposes through irony inflated claims about art. Julius identifies and celebrates those Jewish works of art which by their irony subvert artistic and political idolatry. Idolizing Pictures is a manifesto for Jewish art."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Ingres/Komar and Melamid (p. 12)
  • Idolatry (p. 24)
  • The Christian resolution (p. 28)
  • The Jewish resolution (p. 33)
  • Jewish aniconicism (p. 42)
  • Jewish iconicism (p. 49)
  • Komar and Melamid: a Jewish iconoclasm (p. 58)
  • Iconoclasms (p. 77)
  • More than one route? (p. 89)
  • Jewish creativity (p. 94)
  • Bibliographical essay (p. 100)
  • List of illustrations (p. 117)

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