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Author Bernier, Ronald R

Title Religion and Contemporary Art A Curious Accord
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (475 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical and Interpretative Frameworks -- 1 The New Visibility of Religion in Contemporary Art: Four Interpretive Horizons -- 2 Exploring Theological Dimensions of the Work of Art -- 3 Translating Religion: Contemporary Art through a Postsecular Lens -- 4 The Question of Criticism: What to Do with Our Revelations? -- 5 Curating Faith: Art, Religion, and the Curatorial -- 6 A Loving Regard: Contemporary Art and Expanding the Archive
7 Exhibition as Pilgrimage: Visual Strategies for Interfaith Dialogue -- Part II: Artistic Strategies -- 8 Iconic: Contemporary Portraiture and Sacred Personhood -- 9 Relic-ing Now: Reliquary Strategies of Materiality and Memory in Contemporary Art -- 10 Contemporary Art as Pilgrimage and Site: Ambrosio's As Far As The Eye Can Travel Zine Project -- 11 Rogue Priests: Ritual, Sacrament, and Witness in Contemporary Art -- 12 Walking Naked and Barefoot: When Ancient Jewish Prophets Meet Avant-Garde Performance Artists
13 Revisiting "Art in the Dark": Thomas McEvilley, Performance Art, and the End(s) of Shamanism -- 14 Infused with Light: Christian Traces in Multimedia Installation Art -- 15 Bill Viola, the Icon, and the Apophatic Sublime -- Part III: Case Studies of Artists and Artworks -- 16 The Lived Religion of Andy Warhol -- 17 "A King Aesthetic?" Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and the Ethos of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- 18 From the Wounds, Grace: John August Swanson and the Theological Aesth/Ethics of Liberation -- 19 Cities of Light: Phillip K. Smith III and the Light & Space Movement
20 Performativity and the Flesh: The Economy of the Icon in Lia Chavez's Light Body -- 21 Theaster Gates and the Good Use of Forgotten Things -- 22 On Preaching, Performance Art, and Television: Christian Jankowski's The Holy Artwork -- 23 Tools of the Apocalypse: Eschatology in Contemporary Jewish and Catholic Art -- 24 Back to the Garden: Utopia and Paradise in the work of Jim Shaw, Liza Lou, Shirin Neshat, and Shoja Azari -- 25 Deep Waters: Art and the Revival of Religion in Contemporary China -- 26 Salvation in the Fallen World: On Meng Yan's Recent Monumental Works
27 Chrysanne Stathacos, Charwei Tsai: The Mandala -- 28 Performing Memory and Mourning: Diane Victor's Martyred Women -- 29 Weaving Land and Water: On the Poetics of Diasporic and Indigenous Resistance -- 30 Al Buraq: Explorations of Liminality in Contemporary Islamic Art -- Afterword: A Colloquy with Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, James Elkins, Ben Quash, and S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate -- Contributors: Biographical Notes -- Credits -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Art and religion
Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
Art and religion.
Art, Modern -- Themes, motives.
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Rachel Hostetter
ISBN 9781000868456
1000868451