Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
מחשבת ישראל
Angaben zur Quelle:
ד (תשפג) 84-104
Keywords:
Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts History
;
Jewish art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500
;
Hebrew philology History
Abstract:
The three-way relationship between patrons, artists, and viewers poses intensely considered in the recent art historical discourse on illuminated some crucial methodological questions that have been repeatedly and manuscripts. If we are to decipher the meanings or explicit messages of images correctly, we ought to attend first to the question of who would have determined these meanings and messages and who would have designed the overall appearance of the images and their specific features. An artistic mind aware of the full potential of the impact the visual has on theological or political agenda? To whom would such messages have been anny given viewer's perception, perhaps? Or a patron with a particular addressed? Would the potential addressees only have been erudite viewers. or might they have been uneducated individuals as well? Art can function as an active message-bearer on the one hand or as a more passive reflector of social circumstances and cultural processes on the other. This paper discusses several cases in point and views them in light of recent methodological considerations in the field.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
