« You shall not carve idols for yourselves ni the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth. »

Shared by the three religions of the Book, this prohibition has been interpreted by each in fundamentally different ways. It was widely respected by the Jews until the Enlightenment.

Eliane Strosberg proposes a brilliant re-reading of the representation of the human figure in the light of the Jewish experience, analyzing its appearance in the works of modernists such as Chagall, Freundlich, Lipchitz, Modigliani, Pissarro, Soutine, Zadkine, and contemporary artists such as Lucian Freud, Alex Katz and Kitaj.