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The Return Of Religion And Other Myths

A Critical Reader In Contemporary Art

Overview

Series and the final part of a three-fold project organized by BAK under same title, in which the popular assumption of the return of religion to the field of artistic practice and its discourses, the public sphere, contemporary politics, and media in the West is interrogated as a constitutive "myth" of our current condition. Through a wide-ranging selection of texts, a group of artists, art historians and theorists, scholars of religion, and sociologists unpack the historical underpinnings of religion's so-called "return", art's long-standing relationship with iconoclasm and connection to religious representation, the manipulation of certain religious imagery in the mass media, and contemporary art's potential to complicate and problematize commonly-held beliefs about the role and potential of the image in today's world.

ISBN 9789460830075
Category Arts and crafts
Call number N72R4 R48 2009
Physical description 213 pages:illustrations;17 cm.
Bibliographical references? Yes
Publisher name Bak
Publication year 2009
Place of publication Utrecht
Language English
Is series? Yes
Series name Critical Reader Series

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