The shape of revelation
Subtitle: aesthetics and modern Jewish thought
By: Zachary Braiterman.
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780804753210
Subjects: Aesthetics -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Description: "The Shape of Revelation explores the overlap between revelation and aesthetic form from the perspective of Judaism. It does so by setting the Jewish philosophy of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig alongside its immediate visual environment in the aesthetics of early German modernism, most notably alongside "the spiritual in art" as it appears in the art and art theories of Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Franz Marc. The modern shape of revelation - and "the spiritual in art" that emerges from this conversation - builds upon a vocabulary of form creation, sheer presence, lyric pathos, rhythmic repetition, open spatial dynamism, and erotic pulse that was unique to Germany in the first quarter of the twentieth century. This study works to identify and critically assess the sensual root that is brought to bear upon the modern image of revelation and "the spiritual in art.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Form; title: Abstraction; title: Pathos; title: Time; title: Space; title: Eros.