Jewish identity and art history
The book asks all the right questions about society, culture, religion and art.
"In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art-historical discourse. At the same time, their essays introduce to art history the issue of cultural i…
In spite of growing globalisation there remains in the world a split between the West & the rest. Jalmar & Penslar argue that orientalism is based on the Christian West's attempts to understand its relations with both its monotheistic others - Muslims & Jews.
In spite of growing globalisation there remains in the world a split between the West & the rest. Jalmar & Penslar argue that orientalism is based on the Christian West's attempts to understand its relations with both its monotheistic others - Muslims & Jews.
"In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of anti-Semitic iconography in the Middle Ages. The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel--the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symb…
"In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of anti-Semitic iconography in the Middle AgesThe straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel--the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symbol…
"In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of anti-Semitic iconography in the Middle Ages. The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel--the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symb…