ISBN:
9789004290266
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXXVII, 450 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
Brill's series in Jewish studies volume 59
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ida, Batsheva Goldman, author Hasidic art and the Kabbalah
Keywords:
Jewish art and symbolism
;
Hasidism
;
Cabala
;
Jewish art and symbolism
;
Hasidism
;
Cabala
;
Chassidismus
;
Kabbala
Abstract:
"Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects, and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah. Examined at the delicate and difficult to define interface between seemingly simple, folk art and complex ideological and conceptual outlooks which contain deep, abstract symbols, the study touches on aspects of object history, intellectual history, the decorative arts, and the history of religion. Based on original texts, the focus of this volume is on the subjective experience of the user at the moment of ritual, applying tenets of process philosophy and literary theory - Wolfgang Iser, Gaston Bachelard, and Walter Benjamin - to the analysis of objects"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004290266
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