Hasidic art and the Kabbalah /
"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. Examined at the d...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Series: | Brill's series in Jewish studies ;
v. 59 Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 59 |
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| Summary: | "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. Examined at the delicate and difficult to define interface between seemingly simple, folk art and complex ideological and conceptual outlooks which contain deep, abstract symbols, the study touches on aspects of object history, intellectual history, the decorative arts, and the history of religion. Based on original texts, the focus of this volume is on the subjective experience of the user at the moment of ritual, applying tenets of process philosophy and literary theory - Wolfgang Iser, Gaston Bachelard, and Walter Benjamin - to the analysis of objects"-- |
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| Physical Description: | XXXVII, 450 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm xxxvii, 450 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-439) and indexes Includes bibliographical references and index Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 9004287701 9789004287709 |
| ISSN: | 0926-2261 ; |