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The director of the Master of Visual Arts in New York Jewish, Vivian Mann, Lorca offers a seminar on medieval Jewish art (24/05/2010)

The assembly hall of the headquarters of Ceclor houses between the hours of tomorrow and a new appointment to the Jewish culture.

This is the conclusion of the workshop and laboratory of ideas about Jewish art called "Think Tank, the art of being a Jew."

The findings of the Synagogue and the Jewish quarter of the castle of Lorca, and some archaeological material of great artistic value (decorative plasterwork, glass lamps, etc..) Have made the city of Lorca in a suitable framework for the study of which has been called "the Jewish art."

What might be called Jewish art?

Does that done by Jews?

"He who is inspired by Jewish reasons?

"Al made by Jews and non Jews?

There is no doubt that the seminar becomes an ideal place to discuss these issues, the artistic contributions of the Jews and their worldview.

In the Torah, the God of Israel gives special qualities of creativity to Bezalel to build the Mishkan or Tabernacle of the desert.

Arts and crafts go hand in hand and creativity is an essential part of man as divine and psychological fitness.

Today we can not envisage the artistic production from tight disciplines: historians, art historians, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers should share their ideas.

According to Richard Cohen, author of Jewish Icons (Berkley, 1998), during the Middle Ages various evidences are seen as mere decoration, illuminated manuscripts, synagogue structures, artistic expressions of several generations who were part of Jewish Life.

Still in academic and nonacademic circles, Jews and non-Jews, the belief that Jews and art are opposed entities is still ongoing.

Nothing is further from the truth.

Here lies the question of "Jewish art."

No definition of Jewish art, as they say Jonathan Karp and Barbara Kirshenblatt may be sufficient, since Jewishness is something continent and contextual, rather than something permanent or a priori presumption.

In Cohen's words, this is "reflecting the Jewish experience."

One of the best experts of the so-called "Jewish Art" is Dr. Vivian Mann.

Author of numerous publications, former Director of the Jewish Museum in New York and, currently, Director of Master of Visual Arts in New York Jewish, Professor Mann is also an expert in Lorca's findings and, in recognition of his enormous potential and historical value, a strong advocate of its value.

She will illustrate two interesting conferences of medieval art.

A communion difficult Artists Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain

This conference explores the interrelationships between the Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages last two centuries of Jewish life in Medieval Spain match was the altarpiece.

Documents and other evidence prove that Jews and conversos were artists of Christian altars, some were beginners who signed contracts and others were attending the workshops.

The collaboration between Christians and Jews, as well as attitudes toward Jews in medieval times, resulted in a significant Jewish presence in parts of the altar.

Jews of that time were actors in scenes from the life of Jesus, the Jewish areas provided a framework for the Temple and the Holy Land.

Many refer to scenes of medieval life.

As the workshops also produced altarpieces produced illuminated manuscripts, the art of a type often influenced others.

Iconoclastic stylistic relationships can be extracted from the altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts in Hebrew, Latin, forming other types of interaction between Jewish and Christian Art.

Traditionalism in the Sephardic Ceremonial Art

Although there are relatively few works of Jewish ceremonial art of Medieval Spain, can be reconstructed thumbnail representations of the fourth century in the Hebrew manuscripts and the monitoring of works used in the Sephardic Diaspora in North Africa, Italy and the Empire Ottoman.

The result of these continuities between the manuscripts and present examples below, as well as the language of the dedicatory inscriptions, is a strong sense of traditionalism that Sephardic Jews embraced and expressed the pride of "the golden heritage Middle Ages in Spain. "

These events are sponsored by the Foundation Sefarad Beitenu, and have the cooperation of the Municipality of Lorca.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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