{"product_id":"religion-and-contemporary-art-9781032354170","title":"Religion and Contemporary Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReligion and Contemporary Art\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This remarkable volume invites into conversation an impressive assembly of interlocutors and an impressively diverse set of approaches to a still-mystifyingly understudied subject. \u003ci\u003eReligion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord \u003c\/i\u003erepresents a signal contribution that brings into creative relation its two key terms to demonstrate how they are not simply manifest in adjacency but often also inextricably fused. Highly recommended to scholars in art and\/or religion as to artists in all media!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSally M. Promey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, Yale University, USA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003ci\u003eRonald R. Bernier and Rachel Hostetter Smith \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Theoretical and Interpretative Frameworks \u003c\/b\u003e1. The New Visibility of Religion in Contemporary Art: Four Interpretive Horizons \u003ci\u003eJonathan A. Anderson \u003c\/i\u003e2. Exploring Theological Dimensions of the Work of Art \u003ci\u003eLinda Stratford \u003c\/i\u003e3. Translating Religion: Contemporary Art Through a Postsecular Lens \u003ci\u003eLieke Wijnia \u003c\/i\u003e4. The Question of Criticism: What to Do with Our Revelations? \u003ci\u003eJeffrey L. Kosky \u003c\/i\u003e5. Curating Faith: Art, Religion, and the Curatorial \u003ci\u003eDaniel A. Siedell \u003c\/i\u003e6. A Loving Regard: Contemporary Art and Expanding the Archive \u003ci\u003eElissa Yukiko Weichbrodt \u003c\/i\u003e7. Exhibition as Pilgrimage: Visual Strategies for Interfaith Dialogue \u003ci\u003eAaron Rosen \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Artistic Strategies \u003c\/b\u003e8. Iconic: Contemporary Portraiture and Sacred Personhood \u003ci\u003eKatie Kresser \u003c\/i\u003e9. Relic-ing Now: Reliquary Strategies of Materiality and Memory in Contemporary Art \u003ci\u003eCynthia Hahn \u003c\/i\u003e10. Contemporary Art as Pilgrimage Site: Ambrosio’s \u003ci\u003eAs Far as the Eye Can Travel Zine Kathryn Barush \u003c\/i\u003e11. Rogue Priests: Ritual, Sacrament, and Witness in Contemporary Art \u003ci\u003eRachel Hostetter Smith \u003c\/i\u003e12. Walking Naked and Barefoot: When Ancient Jewish Prophets Meet Avant-Garde Performance Artists \u003ci\u003eWayne L. Roosa \u003c\/i\u003e13. Revisiting \"Art in the Dark\": Thomas McEvilley, Performance Art, and the End(s) of Shamanism \u003ci\u003eKaren Gonzalez Rice \u003c\/i\u003e14. Infused with Light: Christian Traces in Multimedia Installation Art \u003ci\u003eJorge Sebastián Lozano \u003c\/i\u003e15. Bill Viola, the Icon, and the Apophatic Sublime \u003ci\u003eRonald R. Bernier \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Case Studies of Artists and Artworks \u003c\/b\u003e16. The Lived Religion of Andy Warhol \u003ci\u003eStephen Bush \u003c\/i\u003e17. \"A King Aesthetic?\": Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and the Ethos of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. \u003ci\u003eJames Romaine \u003c\/i\u003e18. From the Wounds Grace: John August Swanson and the Theological Aesth\/Ethics of Liberation \u003ci\u003eCecilia González-Andrieu \u003c\/i\u003e19. Cities of Light: Phillip K. Smith III and the Light \u0026amp; Space Movement \u003ci\u003eMatthew J. Milliner \u003c\/i\u003e20. Performativity and the Flesh: The Economy of the Icon in Lia Chavez’s Light Body \u003ci\u003eJulie M. Hamilton \u003c\/i\u003e21. Theaster Gates and the Good Use of Forgotten Things \u003ci\u003eDonato Loia \u003c\/i\u003e22. On Preaching, Performance Art, and Television: Christian Jankowski’s \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Artwork\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIsabelle Loring Wallace \u003c\/i\u003e23. Tools of the Apocalypse: Eschatology in Contemporary Jewish and Catholic Art \u003ci\u003eBen Schachter \u003c\/i\u003e24. Back to the Garden – Utopia and Paradise in the work of Jim Shaw, Liza Lou, Shirin Neshat, and Shoja Azari \u003ci\u003eEleanor Heartney \u003c\/i\u003e25. Deep Waters: Art and the Revival of Religion in Contemporary China \u003ci\u003ePatricia Eichenbaum Karetzky \u003c\/i\u003e26. Salvation in the Fallen World: On Meng Yan’s Recent Monumental Works \u003ci\u003eChangping Zha \u003c\/i\u003e27. Chrysanne Stathacos and Charwei Tsai: The Mandala \u003ci\u003eHaema Sivanesa \u003c\/i\u003e28. Performing Memory and Mourning: Diane Victor’s Martyred Women \u003ci\u003eKaren von Veh \u003c\/i\u003e29. Weaving Land and Water: On the Poetics of Diasporic and Indigenous Resistance \u003ci\u003eYohana Agra Junker \u003c\/i\u003e30. Al Buraq: Explorations of Liminality in Contemporary Islamic Art \u003ci\u003eSascha Crasnow \u003c\/i\u003eAfterword: A Colloquy with \u003ci\u003eDiane Apostolos-Cappadona, James Elkins, Ben Quash, and S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate. Contributors: Biographical Notes Credits Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371811348823,"sku":"9781032354170","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religion-and-contemporary-art-9781032354170","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}