Imaging pilgrimage : art as embodied experience / Kathryn R. Barush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barush, Kathryn R. (Kathryn Rebecca), 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilgrims and pilgrimages in art.

Christian art and symbolism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.

Summary:

"While place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments, assemblages of souvenirs, and music? Imaging Pilgrimage explores contemporary art that is created after a pilgrimage and intended to act as a catalyst for the embodied experience of others. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary artwork that links one landscape to another-from the Spanish Camino to a backyard in the Pacific Northwest, from Lourdes to South Africa, from Jerusalem to England, and from Ecuador to California. The close attention to context and experience allows for popular practices like the making of third-class or "contact" relics to augment conversations about the authenticity or perceived power of a replica or copy; it also challenges the tendency to think of the 'original' in hierarchic terms. Imaging Pilgrimage brings various fields into conversation by offering a number of lenses and theoretical approaches (materialist, kinesthetic, haptic, synesthetic) that engage objects as radical sites of encounter, activated through religious and ritual praxis, and negotiated with not just the eyes, but a multiplicity of senses."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Plates

List of Figures

Introduction: Art as Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage as Art

I. Vashon Island - Spain: A Backyard Camino

II. S. Africa - Lourdes: Souvenirs as Sites

III. England - Jerusalem: Rewilding through Pilgrimage Song and Chant

IV. Oakland - Ecuador: Haciendo marcas otra vez-Making marks, again

V. Los Altos (Labyrinth) - Beyond: "The end is where we start from"

Towards a Conclusion: "As Far as the Eye Can Travel"

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501335020

1501335022

9781501335037

1501335030

OCLC:

1259322867