Isaiah doesn't in the masterful satire of the idol and its craftsman in chapter 44. But Isaiah knows what lies underneath the penchant for idols. He understands the psychology of idolatry the psychical magic of cultic ritual. He knows the trappings of superstition which abound wherever idols are adored, fondled, kissed, carried, etc. Isaiah understands the fundamental pillar of idolatry the attraction which it has and the reason it bedevils every generation.
Idolatry is a form of psychological manipulation.
You may take away the concrete image, but the manipulation will remain. Manipulated out of a sense of dependence dependence on the mythical, the numinous, the mysterium tremendum. Reenact his death and rebirth and you control the seasons winter to spring. What was Astarte but a goddess to be dominated and used submit to the sacred rite of prostitution and you control the female consort of the big boss god, Baal himself. But to manipulate requires the tactile, doesn't it it requires the physical.