02993nam 2200589 450 991079861710332120200520144314.00-231-54199-610.7312/jack17818(CKB)3710000000865253(SSID)ssj0001646490(PQKBManifestationID)16416476(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001646490(PQKBWorkID)14971133(PQKB)10903191(MiAaPQ)EBC4691582(DE-B1597)478135(OCoLC)959037417(OCoLC)979746051(DE-B1597)9780231541992(Au-PeEL)EBL4691582(CaPaEBR)ebr11268658(CaONFJC)MIL962612(OCoLC)959149774(EXLCZ)99371000000086525320160321h20162016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe work of art rethinking the elementary forms of religious life /Michael JacksonNew York :Columbia University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (273 pages) illustrationsInsurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-231-17818-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preamble -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- IndexHow are we to think of works of art? Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward imperatives and outward constraints, thereby making our lives more manageable and meaningful. Art allows us to strike a balance between being actors and being acted upon. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia and West Africa, as well as insights from psychoanalysis, religious studies, literature, and the philosophy of art, Jackson deploys an extraordinary range of references-from Bruegel to Beuys, Paleolithic art to performance art, Michelangelo to Munch-to explore the symbolic labor whereby human beings make themselves, both individually and socially, out of the environmental, biographical, and physical materials that affect them: a process that connects art with gestation, storytelling, and dreaming and illuminates the elementary forms of religious life.Art and religionArt and religion.201/.67Jackson Michael1940-960686MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798617103321The work of art3800491UNINA