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In recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion by focusing on the ways artists re-work religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power- iconic and political. It discusses a number of exhibitions that take religion as their central theme, and a selection of works by Bill Viola, Lawrence Malstaf, Victoria Reynolds, and Berlinde de Bruyckere-all of whom, in their respective ways and media, recycle religious motifs and iconography and whose works resonate with, or problematize the motif of, the true image.

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Publié par	Fordham University Press
Date de parution	01 mai 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780823274505
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	14 Mo

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B r e a k i n g R e s e m b l a n c e

Breaking Resemblance The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art

Alena Alexandrova

f o r d h a m u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s New York 2017

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Names: Alexandrova, Alena, author. Title: Breaking resemblance : the role of religious motifs in contemporary art / Alena Alexandrova. Description: First edition. | New York : Fordham University Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2016027577 | ISBN 9780823274475 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Art and religion. | Idols and images in art. | Art, Modern—20th century—Themes, motives. | Art, Modern—21st century—Themesm, otives. Classiﬁcation: LCC N72.R4 A44 2017 | DDC 700/.4820218—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016027577

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List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Situating Contemporary Art and Religion 1. Veronicas and Artists 2. Breaking the Religious Image: Reinventing Religion in Art 3. Between Critical Displacements and Spiritual Afﬁrmations 4. Images between Religion and Art 5. The Video Veronicas of Bill Viola 6. Images That Do Not Rest: The Installations of Lawrence Malstaf 7. Illusionism Cut: The Painting of Victoria Reynolds 8. The Body Recast: The Sculpture of Berlinde de Bruyckere Conclusion

Notes Bibliography Index

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1 WimDelvoye,Helix DHAACO, 2008 2 HansMemling,Saint Veronica–75, 1470 3 Jan van Eyck,Holy Face, 1438 4 Details, the Shroud of Turin 5 AlbrechtDürer,Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe, 1500 6 Secondo Pia, photographic image of the Shroud of Turin, 1898 7 ÉdouardManet,The Dead Christ with Angels, 1864 8 MarcelDuchamp, Fountain, 1917 9 Gert Jan Kocken,Anna retablephotograph fromDefacingseries, 2006 10 Andres Serrano,Piss Christ, 1987 11 Bill Viola,Memoria,2000 128 12 Bill Viola,The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000 13 Francisco de Zurbarán,The Holy Face, 1660 14 Lawrence Malstaf,Sandbible, 1999 15 Lawrence Malstaf,Madonna, 2000 16 Lawrence Malstaf,Shrink, 1995 17 Victoria Reynolds,For the Carnal in Dante’s Hell, 1999 18 Pieter Aertsen,AMeat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms,1551 175 19 Lucio Fontana,Spatial Concept ‘Waiting,’1960 20 Berlinde de Bruyckere,Jelle Luipaard, 2004 21 Berlinde de Bruyckere,Hanne, 2003 22 Master of Flemalle (Robert Campin),The Thief to the Left of Christ, ca. 1430 23 Hans Baldung Grien,Death and the Maiden, 1517

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