Dreaming of Michelangelo : Jewish variations on a modern theme / Asher D. Biemann.
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TextPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 180 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780804784368
- 0804784361
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Appreciation -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Appreciation -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
- Jewish aesthetics -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- Jewish aesthetics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life
- Esthétique juive -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Esthétique juive -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Juifs -- Allemagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 19e siècle
- Juifs -- Allemagne -- Vie intellectuelle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Art appreciation
- Jewish aesthetics
- Jews -- Intellectual life
- Germany
- 1800-1999
- 305.892/404309034 23
- DS134.25 .B53 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The unrequited Eros : Michelangelo and the Jewish love for Italy -- The dream of the moving Moses : Michelangelo and Jewish statue-love -- Fragments of desire : Michelangelo and the aesthetics of Jewish thought.
Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of Michelangelo as an ""unrequited lover"" whose work expressed loneliness and a longing for humanity's response. The modern Jewish imagination thus became consciously idolatrous. Writers brought to life-literally-Michelangelo's sculptures, seeing in them their own worldly and emotional struggles. The Moses statue in particular became an a.
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