Breaking Resemblance (eBook)

The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art

Alena Alexandrova (Autor)

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2017
288 Seiten
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-7449-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The book explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion. It focuses on the ways artists re-appropriate religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power – iconic and political.

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In recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion by focusing on the ways artists re-work religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power- iconic and political. It discusses a number of exhibitions that take religion as their central theme, and a selection of works by Bill Viola, Lawrence Malstaf, Victoria Reynolds, and Berlinde de Bruyckere-all of whom, in their respective ways and media, recycle religious motifs and iconography and whose works resonate with, or problematize the motif of, the true image.

Autor

Alena Alexandrova is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2017
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: acheiropoietos • Appropriation • contemporary Art • counter-motif • cult image • eras of the image • Exhibition • Iconoclasm • Installation • painting • presentation • Ready-made • regimes of the image • religious iconography • religious motif • sculpture • Spirituality • video-art
• ISBN-10: 0-8232-7449-7 / 0823274497
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-7449-9 / 9780823274499