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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453706403321

Titolo

Re-enchantment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James Elkins and David Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-90232-1

1-281-79652-2

9786611796525

0-203-89166-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

The art seminar ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

ElkinsJames <1955->

MorganDavid <1957->

Disciplina

701

Soggetti

Art and religion

Art criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; TABLE OF CONTENTS; SERIES PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; ENCHANTMENT, DISENCHANTMENT, RE-ENCHANTMENT; 2 STARTING POINTS; ART AND RELIGION IN THE MODERN AGE; FROM THE FORM OF SPIRIT TO THE SPIRIT OF FORM; HOW SOME SCHOLARS DEAL WITH THE QUESTION; RELIGION AS MEDIUM; MARY WARHOL/JOSEPH DUCHAMP; 3 THE ART SEMINAR; 4 ASSESSMENTS; 5 AFTERWORDS; MISSING RELIGION, OVERLOOKING THE BODY; THE NEXT STEP?; 6 ENVOI TO THE ART SEMINAR SERIES; ENVOI; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, ""re-enchantment"" (as in Weber), and the aura (as in Benjamin) have been used to smuggle religious concepts back into academic writing, but there is still no direct communication between ""religionists"" and scholars. Re-Enchantment, volume 7 in The Art



Seminar Series, will be the first