New Directions in Jewish Art History
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Julie Harris
Organizer Affiliation
Spertus Institute
Presider Name
Therese Martin
Presider Affiliation
Instituto de Historia (CCHS-CSIC)
Paper Title 1
Reading the Medieval Spanish Synagogues: A New Approach from the Perspective of Nasrid Art
Presenter 1 Name
Daniel Muñoz Garrido (Congress Travel Award Winner)
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. de Granada
Paper Title 2
The Hunter and the Hunted in an Inverted World: Marginality in the Barcelona Haggadah
Presenter 2 Name
Abby Kornfeld
Presenter 2 Affiliation
City College of New York
Paper Title 3
The Moses Problem and Other Mysteries of BL MS Or 2737 (the Hispano-Moresque Haggadah)
Presenter 3 Name
Julie Harris
Start Date
15-5-2015 10:00 AM
Session Location
Schneider 1340
Description
Today, historians of the visual arts made by and for Medieval Jews are working within a historical framework that recognizes a much richer and more frequent interaction between Jews and Christians than was noted in previous scholarship. This recognition is beginning to resonate in academic treatments of Hebrew manuscripts, for example, where it has overtaken older preoccupations with stylistic or iconographic influence or resistance thereof to emphasize instead questions concerning audience, gender, and the relationship between word and image that are applicable throughout the Medieval world. What emerges from this perspective is a notion of Jewish visuality and a re-evaluation of its place in the Medieval world that recognizes, but is not determined by, adherence to the Second Commandment or the possibilities for polemical intent embedded in its visual programs.
This session will present papers from scholars working on art or architecture made for Medieval Jews whose research applies contemporary methodologies and participates in a substantive dialogue with those working in other subfields of Medieval Art History.
Julie Harris
New Directions in Jewish Art History
Schneider 1340
Today, historians of the visual arts made by and for Medieval Jews are working within a historical framework that recognizes a much richer and more frequent interaction between Jews and Christians than was noted in previous scholarship. This recognition is beginning to resonate in academic treatments of Hebrew manuscripts, for example, where it has overtaken older preoccupations with stylistic or iconographic influence or resistance thereof to emphasize instead questions concerning audience, gender, and the relationship between word and image that are applicable throughout the Medieval world. What emerges from this perspective is a notion of Jewish visuality and a re-evaluation of its place in the Medieval world that recognizes, but is not determined by, adherence to the Second Commandment or the possibilities for polemical intent embedded in its visual programs.
This session will present papers from scholars working on art or architecture made for Medieval Jews whose research applies contemporary methodologies and participates in a substantive dialogue with those working in other subfields of Medieval Art History.
Julie Harris