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The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual
Kalman P. Bland
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| #2383767 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2001-10-01 | 2001-07-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.55 x6.14l,.80 | File type: PDF | 248 pages | ||3 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| Bland and not cohesive|By A disappointed reader|Bland does not adequately connect the medieval and the modern, leaving a gap between the two periods. Further, he is clearly more adept at analyzing the medieval period as his discussion of the modern lacks the same level of critical penetration. In sum, I found Bland's book to be bland.||"The research for this work reflects a great and careful scholarly effort. . .Highly recommended."--Choice
"Bland has shown that the whole question of whether Jews are 'rtless' is a construction of modern thought, and has little to do
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.
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