James (Hrsg.) Elkins

Re-Enchantment

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The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, re-enchantment (as in Weber), and the aura (as in Benjamin) have been used to smuggle religious concepts back into academic writing, but there is still no direct communication between religionists and scholars. Re-Enchantment, volume 7 in The Art Seminar Series, will be the first book to bridge that gap.The volume will include an introduction and tw… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Morgan, David (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-135-90232-2
EAN: 9781135902322
Produktnummer: 18432708
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'489 KB
Abbildungen: Following series design - 'Art Seminar' (To follow The State of Art Criticism, tighter template), 2 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen

Über den Autor

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Pictures and Tears, How to Use Your Eyes, What Painting Is, The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, and Master Narratives and their Discontents, all published by Routledge; and Six Stories from the End of Representation, published by Stanford University Press. David Morgan is Professor of Religion at Duke University, and author of several books, including Visual Piety, The Sacred Gaze, and The Lure of Images (Routledge). He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Material Religion.