By Asher D. Biemann
Dreaming of Michelangelo is the 1st book-length research to discover the highbrow and cultural affinities among smooth Judaism and the lifestyles and paintings of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals chanced on themselves within the snapshot of Michelangelo as an "unrequited lover" whose paintings expressed loneliness and a eager for humanity's reaction. the fashionable Jewish mind's eye hence turned consciously idolatrous. Writers delivered to life—literally—Michelangelo's sculptures, seeing in them their very own worldly and emotional struggles. The Moses statue particularly grew to become an archetype of Jewish liberation politics in addition to a relevant concentration of Jewish aesthetics. And such affinities prolonged past sculpture: Jewish viewers to the Sistine Chapel reinterpreted the ceiling as a manifesto of prophetic socialism, with out its Christian parts. in accordance with Biemann, the phenomenon of Jewish self-recognition in Michelangelo's paintings provided a substitute for the failed provides of the German enlightenment. via this unforeseen discovery, he rethinks German Jewish historical past and its connections to Italy, the Mediterranean, and the paintings of the Renaissance.
Read Online or Download Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme PDF
Best art books
The Art of Manliness - Manvotionals: Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the 7 Manly Virtues
In response to a well-liked sequence, "Manvotionals" is a set of the simplest suggestion ever written down for males. From the philosophy of Aristotle to the luck books of the overdue nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the speeches and essays of Theodore Roosevelt, the e-book includes the manly knowledge of the a while - a myriad of poems, costs, and essays designed to encourage males to reside existence to the fullest and comprehend their whole capability as males.
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
This chronicle of the 2 months in 1888 while Paul Gauguin shared a home in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not just how those hallowed artists painted and exchanged principles, but additionally the feel in their daily lives. contains 60 B&W reproductions of the artists' work and drawings from the interval.
Armor Photo Gallery # 15: French Light Tank Renault FT. US Six-Ton Tank..
Книга Armor photograph Gallery # 15: French gentle Tank Renault toes. US Six-Ton Tank. .. Armor picture Gallery # 15: French mild Tank Renault toes. US Six-Ton Tank M1917 Книги Вооружение Автор: Witold J. Lawrynowicz Год издания: 2006 Формат: pdf Издат. :Model Centrum Progres Страниц: seventy five Размер: 35. fifty seven ISBN: 8360672008 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: zero) Оценка:56 b/w pictures, 260 color pictures, 4pp scale drawings.
- The Dealer is the Devil
- On the New
- On Ugliness
- L'art de la sculpture - Искусство скульптуры
- The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
Extra resources for Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme
Example text
62 The same ideals and hopes, perhaps, accompanied the Jewish traveler to Italy and animated, as has often been noted, scores of Jewish scholars of the Renaissance, from Aby Warburg, to Erwin Panofsky, to Erich Auerbach, to Bernard Berenson, to mention only a few;63 and they would, finally, impel the Jewish searcher for Michelangelo. Desire If there ever was a phenomenon that could be called, in good conscience and not without some subtle irony, “German-Jewish,” then it may well have been the shared passion for Italian culture, whose archetypal literary font remain, of course, Goethe’s Italian Journeys of 1786 and 1788.
And it may have been the same eroticism and the same desire for the unconstrained that found a parallel in the Jewish love for Michelangelo. 96 In modern literature, Raphael and Michelangelo have constituted, of course a pair of irreconcilable antipodes. ” For Thode, the “primal power of love” (Urkraft der Liebe) was the origin of Michelangelo’s raw genius, of his “childlike naiveté,” which kept him both a lover into his old age and a follower of the unenlightened, yet powerful Catholic myth;101 but it was the origin also of his suffering and solitude, and of his deeply human feeling.
Paganism sees its god, Judaism hears Him,” was the often repeated formula of the Jewish historian Heinrich Graetz, who, in 1846, likened classical Judaism to a precursor of Protestant iconoclasm. Only a committed iconoclast as Graetz could note in his travel diary of 1854 that “after a while, Venice became boring to me. ”52 The Jewish modern encounter with art, then, which accompanied Jewish emancipation since the Enlightenment, embraced the image and, at the same time, repelled it, a dialectic that mirrored not only the modern dialectic of social and cultural assimilation and simultaneous intellectual or spiritual dissimilation but also the dialectic of modernist aesthetics itself.