Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism

Book Overview

Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian representation of the material world.

The thirteen essays in Judaism and Christian Art reveal that Christian art has always defined itself through the figures of Judaism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812222539
• ISBN13: 9780812222531
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"