People of the Image: Jews and Art (Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination) For Sale

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People of the Image: Jews and Art (Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination) ISBN:0271099186 Author:Marc Michael Epstein Publisher:University Park, PA: Pennsylvanian State University Press. Printed in Lithuania Release Date:2025 Seller Category:Art History Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Very Good Sku: 10271Notes: [ART HISTORY]. Marc Michael Epstein. \"People of the Image: Jews and Art (Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination).\" University Park, PA: Pennsylvanian State University Press. Printed in Lithuania, 2025. First edition. English language. Hardcover with full-color pictorial boards. Nonfiction art history text in eight chapters with introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, and numerous full-color illustrations. 8vo. 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. 40 oz. xviii, 202 pp. A few leaves were dog-earred. Text clean. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 0271099186. \"Epstein demonstrates how medieval Jews transformed their visual art into a vital site of critical commentary. Through bold speculation and radical interpretation, Epstein considers how viewers might have empathized with depicted emotions, how they envisioned the relationship between the monstrous and the human, and how they could effectively perpetrate subversive acts merely by anticipating what might occur next in a given image were it to be set in motion. Examining these artworks and imagining the circumstances of their production and reception, Epstein uncovers otherwise inaccessible social, political, and theological perceptions among Europe’s major medieval minority. He goes on to illuminate the afterlives of medieval Jewish art in its reimaginings by postmodern Jews struggling to establish a conceptual as well as a political space for themselves as a minority in majority Christian society.\"Don\'t forget to check out other great deals in our store!!