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Author: Erik Hornung Publisher: Timken Publishers ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
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"As far back as the third millennium B.C. the Egyptians were investigating questions that concern us still - questions about being and non-being, about the meaning of death, about the nature of the cosmos and of man, about the basis of human society and the legitimization of power. The Egyptians knew that their answers could never be definitive, and this flexible and pluralistic approach is the essence of their philosophical position.
Author: Erik Hornung Publisher: Timken Publishers ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
"As far back as the third millennium B.C. the Egyptians were investigating questions that concern us still - questions about being and non-being, about the meaning of death, about the nature of the cosmos and of man, about the basis of human society and the legitimization of power. The Egyptians knew that their answers could never be definitive, and this flexible and pluralistic approach is the essence of their philosophical position.
Author: Ben Schachter Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271080841 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 175
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Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism and interpretation, Ben Schachter advocates instead a new approach focused on action and process. Departing from the traditional interpretation of the Second Commandment, Schachter addresses abstraction, conceptual art, performance art, and other styles that do not rely on imagery for meaning. He examines Jewish art through the concept of melachot—work-like “creative activities” as defined by the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. Showing the similarity between art and melachot in the active processes of contemporary Jewish artists such as Ruth Weisberg, Allan Wexler, Archie Rand, and Nechama Golan, he explores the relationship between these artists’ methods and Judaism’s demanding attention to procedure. A compellingly written challenge to traditionalism, Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art makes a well-argued case for artistic production, interpretation, and criticism that revels in the dual foundation of Judaism and art history.
Author: Edmund Burke Feldman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 544
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A book on the functions, styles and structure of the major visual art forms, this text is reputed to have the best treatment available on the theory and practice of art criticism. It examines the connection between the visual, social, and physical dimensions of everyday life in which the arts perform essential roles, while illustrating clearly the common features of theme and style in works of art separated by time and culture.
Author: Erik Hornung
Author: Erik Hornung
Author: Ben Schachter
Author: Edmund Burke Feldman
Author: E. D. Francis
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
Author: University of California, Berkeley
Author: Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer
Author: Philosophical Union of the University of California
Author: Jacob Gould Schurman
Author: Benedetto Croce