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1 online resource (xii, 136 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-132) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- The words religion and art -- A very brief history of religion in art -- -- How some scholars deal with the question -- -- Five stories -- -- Kim -- -- Rehema -- -- Brian -- -- Ria -- -- Joel -- -- Kim's story explained: the end of religious art -- -- Rehema's story explained: the creation of new faiths -- -- Brian's story explained: art that is critical of religion -- -- Ria's story explained: how artists try to burn away religion -- -- Joel's story explained: unconscious religion -- -- Some words to describe spiritual art -- -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
For millennia, art has been religious - even in times and places when there was no word for 'art'. Then, in the Renaissance, it became possible for art to glorify the artist, making viewers think more of his skills than of the subjects he portrayed. The modern artist faces a more complex dilemma - one that no art historian has talked about until now. Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? Is contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make expresses your spiritual belief?The Impossibility of Transcendence is about the curious disconnect between spir. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Art and religion.
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Art and religion. |
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Modernism (Art)
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Modernism (Art) |
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Art -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- Case studies.
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Art -- Study and teaching (Higher) |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Art. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Elkins, James, 1955- On the strange place of religion in contemporary art. New York : Routledge, 2004 0415969883 0415969891 (DLC) 2004014164 (OCoLC)55665474 |
| ISBN |
0203324862 (electronic book) |
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9780203324868 (electronic book) |
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9780415969888 |
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0415969883 |
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9780415969895 |
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0415969891 |
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9786610063185 |
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6610063184 |
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0415969891 (Paper) |
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0415969883 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781135879716 (e-book: PDF) |
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1135879710 |
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9781135879662 (e-book: Mobi) |
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1135879664 |
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9781135879709 (e-book: ePub) |
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1135879702 |
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