03656nam 22007935 450 991080960820332120240712011812.00-8232-7452-70-8232-7450-010.1515/9780823274505(CKB)3710000001099924(MiAaPQ)EBC4821725(StDuBDS)EDZ0001809793(OCoLC)976145551(MdBmJHUP)muse59066(DE-B1597)555114(DE-B1597)9780823274505(EXLCZ)99371000000109992420200723h20172017 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBreaking resemblance the role of religious motifs in contemporary art /Alena AlexandrovaFirst edition.New York, NY :Fordham University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) illustrationsThis edition previously issued in print: 2017.0-8232-7447-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Situating contemporary art and religion -- Veronicas and artists -- Breaking the religious image: Reinventing religion in art -- Between critical displacements and spiritual affirmations -- Images between religion and art -- The video Veronicas of Bill Viola -- Images that do not rest: The installations of Lawrence Malstaf -- Illusionism cut: The painting of Veronica Reynolds -- The body recast: The sculpture of Berlinde de Bruyckere -- Conclusion.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.Art, Modern21st centuryThemes, motivesArt, Modern20th centuryThemes, motivesIdols and images in artArt and religionacheiropoietos.appropriation.contemporary art.counter-motif.cult image.eras of the image.exhibition.iconoclasm.installation.painting.presentation.ready-made.regimes of the image.religious iconography.religious motif.sculpture.spirituality.video-art.Art, ModernThemes, motives.Art, ModernThemes, motives.Idols and images in art.Art and religion.700/.4820218700.4820218Alexandrova Alenaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1016131DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910809608203321Breaking Resemblance3961527UNINA