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Breaking Resemblance: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art
Alena Alexandrova
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Description for Breaking Resemblance: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 23 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823274475
SKU
V9780823274475
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About Alena Alexandrova
Alena Alexandrova is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.
Reviews for Breaking Resemblance: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art
"Breaking Resemblance is a consistently thoughtful, well-informed, original examination of modern art and some of its principal debts to the visuality of Christianity."
-David Morgan Duke University "This fascinating book examines the presence and meaning of religious motifs, and references to religion, mostly Christian and especially Catholic, in various examples of contemporary dating from the 1990s to the present ... Read more
-David Morgan Duke University "This fascinating book examines the presence and meaning of religious motifs, and references to religion, mostly Christian and especially Catholic, in various examples of contemporary dating from the 1990s to the present ... Read more