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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963521703321

Autore

Elkins James <1955->

Titolo

On the strange place of religion in contemporary art / / James Elkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-135-87971-0

1-280-06318-1

0-203-32486-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Classificazione

20.06

20.54

Disciplina

704.9/48/09045

Soggetti

Art and religion

Modernism (Art)

Art - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

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 (p. [117]-132) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The Words Religion and Art; A Very Brief History of Religion in Art; How Some Scholars Deal with the Question; Five Stories; Kim's Story Explained: The End of Religious Art; Rehema's Story Explained: The Creation of New Faiths; Brian's Story Explained: Art that Is Critical of Religion; Ria's Story Explained: How Artists Try to Burn Away Religion; Joel's Story Explained: Unconscious Religion; Some Words to Describe Spiritual Art; Conclusions; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

For millennia, art has been religious - even in times and places when there was no word for 'art'. Then, in the Renaissance, it became possible for art to glorify the artist, making viewers think more of his skills than of the subjects he portrayed. The modern artist faces a more complex dilemma - one that no art historian has talked about until now.Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? Is contemporary art is spiritual?  What might it mean to say that the art you make expresses your spiritual belief?The Impossibility of Transcendence is about the curious disconnect between spir