When Seeing is Reading
Englard, Yaffa
How do Christian and Jewish exegeses, opinions and polemics of all ages interact in producing the visual art interpretations in any work, age, place, circumstance?
From the artist's side, what factors - of time, place, religion, reception, theology etc. - influence the interpretation that become a fixed image?
And from the audience's side - how, why, when are these art images received as authoritative and "true", even more so than so than an a...