The artless Jew : medieval and modern affirmations and denials of the visual / by Kalman P. Bland.
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 Jewi...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2000. |
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