Religion and contemporary art : a curious accord / edited by Ronald R. Bernier and Rachel Hostetter Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernier, Ronald R., editor.

Smith, Rachel Hostetter, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and religion.

Art, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 464 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Contents:

Part I: Theoretical and interpretative frameworks. The new visibility of religion in contemporary art : four interpretive horizons / Jonathan A. Anderson

Exploring theological dimensions of the work of art / Linda Stratford

Translating religion : contemporary art through a postsecular lens / Lieke Wijnia

The question of criticism : what to do with our revelations? / Jeffrey L. Kosky

Curating faith : art, religion, and the curatorial / Daniel A. Siedell

A loving regard : contemporary art and expanding the archive / Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt

Exhibition as pilgrimage : visual strategies for interfaith dialogue / Aaron Rosen

Part II: Artistic strategies. Iconic : contemporary portraiture and sacred personhood / Katie Kresser

Relic-ing now : reliquary strategies of materiality and memory in contemporary art / Cynthia Hahn

Contemporary art as pilgrimage and site : Ambrosio's As far as the eye can travel zine project / Kathryn R. Barush

Rogue priests : ritual, sacrament, and witness in contemporary art / Rachel Hostetter Smith

Walking naked and barefoot : when ancient Jewish prophets meet avant-garde performance artists / Wayne L. Roosa

Revisiting "Art in the dark" : Thomas McEvilley, performance art, and the end(s) of shamanism / Karen Gonzalez Rice

Infused with light : Christian traces in multimedia installation art / Jorge Sebastián Lozano

Bill Viola, the icon, and the apophatic sublime / Ronald R. Bernier

Part III: Case studies of artisits and artworks. The lived religion of Andy Warhol / Stephen S. Bush

"A King aesthetic?" Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and the ethos of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / James Romaine

From the wounds, grace : John August Swanson and the theological aesth/ethics of liberation / Cecilia González-Andrieu

Cities of light : Phillip K. Smith III and the light & space movement / Matthew J. Milliner

Performativity and the flesh : the economy of the icon in Lia Chavez's Light body / Julie M. Hamilton

Theaster Gates and the good use of forgotten things / Donato Loia

On preaching, performance art, and television : Christian Jankowski's The holy artwork / Isabelle Loring Wallace

Tools of the apocalypse : eschatology in contemporary Jewish and Catholic art / Ben Schachter

Back to the garden : utopia and paradise in the work of Jim Shaw, Liza Lou, Shirin Neshat, and Shoja Azari / Eleanor Heartney

Deep waters : art and the revival of religion in contemporary China / Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky

Salvation in the fallen world : on Meng Yan's recent monumental works / Changping Zha

Chrysanne Stathacos, Charwei Tsai : the mandala / Haema Sivanesan

Performing memory and mourning : Diane Victor's martyred women / Karen von Veh

Weaving land and water : on the poetics of diasporic and indigenous resistance / Yohana Agra Junker

Al Buraq : explorations of liminality in contemporary Islamic art / Sascha Crasnow

A colloquy with Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, James Elkins, Ben Quash, and S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781003326809 (electronic bk.)

1003326803 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40031842616

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