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Objects of the Spirit Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn
By Emily D. Bilski
Meditations by Nessa Rapoport On the threshold, the vessel we will become, the spilling cup of Your design, felicity unalloyed, drinking our future in draughts of unquenched joy.
Objects of the Spirit presents a unique collection of Jewish ceremonial objects created by the internationally renowned artist Tobi Kahn. Kahn has created singular, functional objects in bronze and wood and large-scale public works, many of which focus on the communal spaces that provide sites for spiritual contemplation—most notably the Meditative Space designed in 2002, at the HealthCare Chaplaincy, New York City. Both Kahn’s public spaces and his private devotional objects embody the rise of spirituality in America and the desire for ritual in everyday life. This landmark title was published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of Tobi Kahn’s art, organized by the Avoda Institute of New York, and boasts essays that offer a wide range of insightful interpretations of both the universal, ecumenical need for ritual and spirituality, as well as the art historical and cultural references in Kahn’s work. Emily D. Bilski is an independent scholar and curator specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European art, cultural history, and contemporary art.
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