Religion and Contemporary Art 1st Edition by Ronald R. Bernier 9781000868494 1000868494

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• ISBN 10: 1000868494
• ISBN 13: 9781000868494
• Author: Ronald R. Bernier 

Religion and Contemporary Art sets the theoretical frameworks and interpretive strategies for exploring the re-emergence of religion in the making, exhibiting, and discussion of contemporary art. Featuring essays from both established and emerging scholars, critics, and artists, the book reflects on what might be termed an “accord” between contemporary art and religion. It explores the common strategies contemporary artists employ in the interface between religion and contemporary art practice. It also includes case studies to provide more in-depth treatments of specific artists grappling with themes such as ritual, abstraction, mythology, the body, popular culture, science, liturgy, and social justice, among other themes. It is a must-read resource for working artists, critics, and scholars in this field, and an invitation to new voices “curious” about its promises and possibilities.

Table contents:

Part I Theoretical and Interpretative Frameworks
1 The New Visibility of Religion in Contemporary Art: Four Interpretive Horizons
2 Exploring Theological Dimensions of the Work of Art
3 Translating Religion: Contemporary Art through a Postsecular Lens
4 The Question of Criticism: What to Do with Our Revelations?
5 Curating Faith: Art, Religion, and the Curatorial
6 A Loving Regard: Contemporary Art and Expanding the Archive
7 Exhibition as Pilgrimage: Visual Strategies for Interfaith Dialogue
Part II Artistic Strategies
8 Iconic: Contemporary Portraiture and Sacred Personhood
9 Relic-ing Now: Reliquary Strategies of Materiality and Memory in Contemporary Art
10 Contemporary Art as Pilgrimage and Site: Ambrosio’s As Far As The Eye Can Travel Zine Project
11 Rogue Priests: Ritual, Sacrament, and Witness in Contemporary Art
12 Walking Naked and Barefoot: When Ancient Jewish Prophets Meet Avant-Garde Performance Artists
13 Revisiting “Art in the Dark”: Thomas McEvilley, Performance Art, and the End(s) of Shamanism
14 Infused with Light: Christian Traces in Multimedia Installation Art
15 Bill Viola, the Icon, and the Apophatic Sublime
Part III Case Studies of Artists and Artworks
16 The Lived Religion of Andy Warhol
17 “A King Aesthetic?” Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and the Ethos of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
18 From the Wounds, Grace: John August Swanson and the Theological Aesth/Ethics of Liberation
19 Cities of Light: Phillip K. Smith III and the Light & Space Movement
20 Performativity and the Flesh: The Economy of the Icon in Lia Chavez’s Light Body
21 Theaster Gates and the Good Use of Forgotten Things
22 On Preaching, Performance Art, and Television: Christian Jankowski’s The Holy Artwork
23 Tools of the Apocalypse: Eschatology in Contemporary Jewish and Catholic Art
24 Back to the Garden: Utopia and Paradise in the work of Jim Shaw, Liza Lou, Shirin Neshat, and Shoja Azari
25 Deep Waters: Art and the Revival of Religion in Contemporary China
26 Salvation in the Fallen World: On Meng Yan’s Recent Monumental Works
27 Chrysanne Stathacos, Charwei Tsai: The Mandala
28 Performing Memory and Mourning: Diane Victor’s Martyred Women
29 Weaving Land and Water: On the Poetics of Diasporic and Indigenous Resistance
30 Al Buraq: Explorations of Liminality in Contemporary Islamic Art

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