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Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania : Nostalgia for Paradise Lost / by Maria Alina Asavei.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Asavei, Maria Alina, author.
- Series:
- Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe, 2523-7993
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russia--History.
- Russia.
- Europe, Eastern--History.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Soviet Union--History.
- Soviet Union.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Arts.
- Religion--History.
- Religion.
- Religion and politics.
- Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
- Cultural History.
- Fine Art.
- History of Religion.
- Politics and Religion.
- Local Subjects:
- Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
- Cultural History.
- Fine Art.
- History of Religion.
- Politics and Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages 23 illustrations, 20 illustrations in color.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2020.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
- Summary:
- This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious ‘affair’ in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe. .
- Contents:
- 1. Art, Politics and Religion in (Post-) Communist Romania: An Introduction
- 2. On the Varieties of Cultural Resistance during Romanian Late Communism
- 3. Godless Religious Art of Romanian National Communism
- 4. Art, Nature and Ecologies of Transfiguration during Romanian National Communism
- 5. Spiritual Ecologies and Meta-Byzantine Music during Nicolae Ceauṣescu’s Regime
- 6. Contemporary Aesthetic Mysticism and Religious Revitalization Movements
- 7. The Body in (Post-) Communist Art: a Site of Salvation and Resistance
- 8. Religion Inspired Art and Politics: Neo-Orthodoxism as Neo-Traditionalism?
- 9. Art as Resistance to the “Religious Affair” and Consumerist Religion in Post-Communist Romania
- 10. Looking Forward: Looking Back through the Three Lense of Art, Politics and Religion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783030562557
- 3030562557
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