his painting

on elliot r wolfson’s paintings

flowering light: kabbalistic mysticism and the art of elliot r. wolfson 

marcia brennan, rice university

the book examines wolfson’s scholarship, poetry and painting as a single, integrated body of work. “i’ve been looking at paintings for 20 years, and this painting was most extraordinary,” brennan said. “when you put it all together, elliot wolfson’s work is far more than a painting, a poem or a text. it is a complex aesthetic experience.

 . . . on flowering light

marcia brennan’s training and expertise in the history of modern art gives her a very specific and very apt position from which to view the reflections and refractions of the scholarship, the poetry and the paintings of elliot wolfson,” kripal said. “the cartesian subject, and with it the search for pure objectivity, is abandoned here for a much richer, and much more mysterious, postmodern self and accompanying epistemology that come to be (and to not be) through elaborate processes of mirroring, reflection and refraction — in effect, a mystical language of dancing, flowering light.

jeffrey kripal, rice university

. . . on flowering light

this text in many ways creates a new paradigm for art history and art criticism.

jay clarke, curator of prints and drawings at the art institute of chicago