Dreaming of Michelangelo - Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme (Hardcover, New)

"Dreaming of Michelangelo" is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an unrequited lover whose work expressed loneliness and a longing for humanity's response. The modern Jewish imagination thus became consciously idolatrous. Writers brought to lifeOColiterallyOCoMichelangelo's sculptures, seeing in them their own worldly and emotional struggles. The Moses statue in particular became an archetype of Jewish liberation politics as well as a central focus of Jewish aesthetics. And such affinities extended beyond sculpture: Jewish visitors to the Sistine Chapel reinterpreted the ceiling as a manifesto of prophetic socialism, devoid of its Christian elements. According to Biemann, the phenomenon of Jewish self-recognition in Michelangelo's work offered an alternative to the failed promises of the German enlightenment. Through this unexpected discovery, he rethinks German Jewish history and its connections to Italy, the Mediterranean, and the art of the Renaissance.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	November 2012
Authors:	Asher Biemann
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	200
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-6881-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-8047-6881-1
Barcode:	9780804768818

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