Batsheva Goldman-Ida

Gebundenes Buch

Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah

Beschreibung

Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah.

Autor

Batsheva Goldman-Ida, Ph.D. (2008), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Curator of Special Projects at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and specializes in visual culture, especially in the early modern period. Born in Boston, MA, she studied Decorative Arts in New York at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and Parsons School of Design. Her latest exhibition and catalogue Alchemy of Words: Abraham Abulafia, Dada, Lettrism (2016) juxtaposes the medieval mystic with early modern innovators of linguistic mysticism and contemporary performance artists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 853g
• ISBN-13: 9789004287709
• ISBN-10: 9004287701
• Artikelnr.: 48703044