{"product_id":"the-artless-jew-9780691089850","title":"The Artless Jew","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynthesizes evidence from medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, poetry, biblical commentaries, travelogues, and law, concluding that premodern Jewish intellectuals held a positive, liberal understanding of the Second Commandment and did, in fact, articulate a certain Jewish aesthetic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 with pre-modern Jews... An excellent counterweight to the vast literature that claims that Jews and Judaism are visually handicapped.\"--Steven Fine, Baltimore Hebrew University and the University of Cincinnati, for CAA.Reviews \"A highly recommended building-block text for further study into the relationship between Judaism and visual art.\"--Religious Studies Review \"Bland's carefully researched book offers an erudite riposte to post-Kantian aesthetic theory and an unusually useful account of the image in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish culture... [It] unsettles many received ideas and unearths many buried texts that change our notions of Jewish visual culture.\"--Adam Bresnick, Times Literary Supplement \"Bland does an excellent job of convincing us ... of the high status of visual production in ancient, medieval and early modern Jewish societies.\"--Pamela Kachurin, The Art Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  Introduction 3  One Modern Denials and Affirmations of Jewish Art: Germanophone Origins and Themes 13  Two Anglo-American Variations 37  Three The Premodern Consensus 59  Four The Well-Tempered Medieval Sensorium 71  Five Medieval Beauty and Cultural Relativism 92  Six Twelfth-Century Pilgrims, Golden Calves, and Religious Polemics 109  Seven The Power and Regulation of Images in Late Medieval Jewish Society 141  Notes 155  Bibliograpby 201  Index 229","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403719319895,"sku":"9780691089850","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691089850.jpg?v=1730484347","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-artless-jew-9780691089850","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}