Beyond Belief: Theoaesthetics or Just Old-Time Religion? - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1498254918 ISBN 13 : 9781498254915

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Beyond Belief: Theoaesthetics or Just Old-Time Religion? explores the possible reemergence of a theological dimension to contemporary art. Long estranged from symbol and sacrament, contemporary artists--and those who think and write about them--seem to have turned once again to a vision rooted in the sacred. In an era marked culturally by world-weary cynicism and self-conscious irony, a new "humanism" may be emerging, one which aims to move beyond fragmentation and opposition to integration and unification. The aim of this book is not to propose a resurgence of religious iconography, but rather to give voice to long-suppressed--often maligned, and certainly professionally risky--positions informed by and reverberating with themes of the sacred. The essays included here, by a range of scholars working on these issues today, originated as a lively and spirited session of the 2008 College Art Association annual conference.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ronald R. Bernier is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues and scholarly essays and the book Monument, Moment, and Memory: Monet's Cathedral in Fin-de-Siecle France (2007), and is author/editor of Beyond Belief: Theoaesthetics or Just Old-Time Religion? (Wipf & Stock, 2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498254918
• ISBN 13: 9781498254915
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Éditeur: Bernier Ronald R
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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