An effort to flesh out the depth of meaning for such common expressions as “Agam’s religious upbringing influenced his artistic view and creative output.” (‘In Motion: Agam at Sunnylands’, Hough and Lopez, The Annenberg Foundation Trust, Rancho Mirage, 2020)
I approach the life and work of Ya’akov Agam through my training as a Rabbi with two fundamental questions: How did his Jewishness manifest itself through his evolving artistic endeavors, and how does his struggle with the second commandment prohibition against graven images speak to the 21st-century Jewish soul?