Readers of this blog will be interested in the book described below since it explores the work of Jewish artists Miriam Benjamin, Helen Mayer Harrision, Mierle Ukeles, etc., curators Sylvia Herskowitz (Yeshiva University Museum) and Michaela Hajkova (Jewish Museum of Prague, and art critic Dore Ashton.
The Jewish Women's Archive should have this book in its library and shop since it deals with Jewish women's contributions to shaping the art of the future.
Shalom u'vracha, Miriam Benjamin Petach Tikvah, Israel
The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness by Mel Alexenberg
This is a wonderful and important book. The author links the history of art to the important role played by various forms of thinking in the Jewish tradition and connects that to the emerging culture of digital expression. Brilliant insights and new ways of seeing make this a must-read for anyone interested in the intellectual history of images in the 21st Century. - Ron Burnett, author of How Images Think (MIT Press, 2005), President of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada.
The author succeeds in opening a unique channel to the universe of present and future art in a highly original and inspiring way. His connection between ancient concepts (Judaism) and the present digital age will force us to thoroughly rethink our ideas about art, society and technology. This book is evidence that Golem is alive! - Michael Bielicky, Professor of Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, and at Hochschule fur Gestaltung, ZKM Center for Art and Media, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Alexenberg has provided us with powerful new lenses to allow us to "see" how postmodern art movements and classical Judaic traditions compliment and fructify one another as the visual arts are now enlarging and adding a spiritual dimension to our lives in the digital era. This book is simply a must read analysis for anyone interested in where we and the visual arts are going in our future. - Moshe Dror, co-author of Futurizing the Jews: Alternative Futures for the 21st Century (Praeger, 2003), President of World Network of Religious Futurists, and Israel Coordinator of World Future Society.
Readers of this blog will be interested in the book described below since it explores the work of Jewish artists Miriam Benjamin, Helen Mayer Harrision, Mierle Ukeles, etc., curators Sylvia Herskowitz (Yeshiva University Museum) and Michaela Hajkova (Jewish Museum of Prague, and art critic Dore Ashton.
The Jewish Women's Archive should have this book in its library and shop since it deals with Jewish women's contributions to shaping the art of the future.
Shalom u'vracha, Miriam Benjamin Petach Tikvah, Israel
The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness by Mel Alexenberg
Published by Intellect Books, 2006. http://www.intellectbooks.co.u...
This is a wonderful and important book. The author links the history of art to the important role played by various forms of thinking in the Jewish tradition and connects that to the emerging culture of digital expression. Brilliant insights and new ways of seeing make this a must-read for anyone interested in the intellectual history of images in the 21st Century. - Ron Burnett, author of How Images Think (MIT Press, 2005), President of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada.
The author succeeds in opening a unique channel to the universe of present and future art in a highly original and inspiring way. His connection between ancient concepts (Judaism) and the present digital age will force us to thoroughly rethink our ideas about art, society and technology. This book is evidence that Golem is alive! - Michael Bielicky, Professor of Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, and at Hochschule fur Gestaltung, ZKM Center for Art and Media, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Alexenberg has provided us with powerful new lenses to allow us to "see" how postmodern art movements and classical Judaic traditions compliment and fructify one another as the visual arts are now enlarging and adding a spiritual dimension to our lives in the digital era. This book is simply a must read analysis for anyone interested in where we and the visual arts are going in our future. - Moshe Dror, co-author of Futurizing the Jews: Alternative Futures for the 21st Century (Praeger, 2003), President of World Network of Religious Futurists, and Israel Coordinator of World Future Society.