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Document Type: | Book |
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Alena Alexandrova |
ISBN: | 9780823274475 0823274470 |
OCLC Number: | 1005717507 |
Notes: | Bibliogr. p. 251-259. Index. |
Description: | 1 v. (XII-268 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Situating contemporary art and religion -- Veronicas and artists -- Breaking the religious image: Reinventing religion in art -- Between critical displacements and spiritual affirmations -- Images between religion and art -- The video Veronicas of Bill Viola -- Images that do not rest: The installations of Lawrence Malstaf -- Illusionism cut: The painting of Veronica Reynolds -- The body recast: The sculpture of Berlinde de Bruyckere -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Alena Alexandrova. |
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"Breaking Resemblance is a consistently thoughtful, well-informed, original examination of modern art and some of its principal debts to the visuality of Christianity." -- -David Morgan Duke University "This fascinating book examines the presence and meaning of religious motifs, and references to religion, mostly Christian and especially Catholic, in various examples of contemporary dating from the 1990s to the present day in Europe and the United States. Especially exploring how religious motifs are appropriated and recycled, Alexandrova considers how and why contemporary artists transform and in some cases defuse religious imagery." -- -Erika Doss University of Notre Dame Read more...

