Response to Melissa Raphael

Authors

• Ruth Illman The Donner Institute

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30664/ar.67588

Keywords:

In the Image, Jewish Art, Religion and Aesthetics, Emmanuel Levinas

Abstract

A response to Melissa Raphael’s article ‘The creation of beauty by its destruction: the idoloclastic aesthetic in modern and contemporary Jewish art’. Key themes discussed include the notion of human beings as created in the image of God, Levinas’s understanding of the face and its ethical demand as well as the contemporary issue of the commodification of the human face in digital media.