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Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism and interpretation, Ben Schachter advocates instead a new approach focused on action and process. Departing from the traditional interpretation of the Second Commandment, Schachter addresses abstraction, conceptual art, performance art, and other styles that do not rely on imagery for meaning. He examines Jewish art through the concept of __melachot__—work-like “creative activities” as defined by the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. Showing the similarity between art and __melachot__ in the active processes of contemporary Jewish artists such as Ruth Weisberg, Allan Wexler, Archie Rand, and Nechama Golan, he explores the relationship between these artists’ methods and Judaism’s demanding attention to procedure. A compellingly written challenge to traditionalism, __Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art__ makes a well-argued case for artistic production, interpretation, an

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Author

Ben Schachter

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271080826

Category

nonfiction