1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480085803321

Autore

Alexandrova Alena

Titolo

Breaking Resemblance : The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art / / Alena Alexandrova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-8232-7452-7

0-8232-7450-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

700/.4820218

Soggetti

Art, Modern - 21st century - Themes, motives

Art, Modern - 20th century - Themes, motives

Idols and images in art

Art and religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Situating Contemporary Art and Religion -- 1. Veronicas and Artists -- 2. Breaking the Religious Image: Reinventing Religion in Art -- 3. Between Critical Displacements and Spiritual Affirmations -- 4. Images between Religion and Art -- 5. The Video Veronicas of Bill Viola -- 6. Images That Do Not Rest: The Installations of Lawrence Malstaf -- 7. Illusionism Cut: The Painting of Victoria Reynolds -- 8. The Body Recast: The Sculpture of Berlinde de Bruyckere -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 whom, in their respective ways and media, recycle religious motifs and iconography and whose works resonate with, or problematize the motif of, the true image.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781930303321

Autore

Matsinhe David Mario

Titolo

Apartheid vertigo : the rise in discrimination against Africans in South Africa / / David M. Matsinhe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-56737-7

1-317-18022-4

1-317-18021-6

1-283-31885-7

9786613318855

1-4094-2620-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary research series in ethnic, gender, and class relations

Disciplina

305.896/068

Soggetti

Black people - South Africa

Minorities - South Africa

Nationalism - South Africa

Apartheid

South Africa Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The new insiders -- pt. 3. The new outsiders -- pt. 4. The European enclave.

Sommario/riassunto

Apartheid vertigo, the dizzying sensation following prolonged oppression and delusions of skin colour, is the focus of this book. Drawing on evidence from interviews, observation, press articles, reports, research monographs and history, this project deconstructs the idea of visible differences between black nationals and black



foreign nationals. It demonstrates that in South Africa violent conflict lurks on the surface and it can burst through the fragile limits set upon it, with the potential to escalate into ethnic cleansing.