In this Book
- Breaking Resemblance: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Figures
- pp. ix-x
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- 1. Veronicas and Artists
- pp. 16-42
- 4. Images between Religion and Art
- pp. 98-126
- 5. The Video Veronicas of Bill Viola
- pp. 127-150
- Conclusion
- pp. 205-208
- Bibliography
- pp. 251-260
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823274505
Related ISBN(s)
9780823274475
MARC Record
OCLC
976145551
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2017-03-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017