ART 338 - Jewish Art from Moses to Modernity

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. What is the relationship between Judaism and the visual arts How has the Second Commandment's prohibition against making "graven images" been interpreted in the ancient and modern worlds What role have art and visual culture played in "boundary definition" when Jewish communities encountered Hellenistic culture, Christianity, Islam, and modernism This course will take an in-depth look at Jewish texts on art and images from the biblical and rabbinic past to the modern period. We will study the decoration of synagogues in the ancient and modern world and the illumination of Jewish manuscripts. We will then investigate Jewish visual culture in the Italian Renaissance, the age of the ghetto, and the emancipation period. We conclude with biographical studies of some 20th-century Jewish artists, considering questions related to memory, exile and diaspora, tradition and the individual, the Holocaust, Israeli identity(ies) and the arts, and the perceived connections between Jewish spirituality, abstraction, and the use of Hebrew letterforms in the visual arts. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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