'The Return of Religion and Other Myths: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art is comprised of a collection of new contributions and anthologized texts by a diverse group of artists, art historians and theorists, scholars of religion, and sociologists who have engaged in interrogating the popular assumption of the return of religion to the field of contemporary art, the public sphere, present-day politics, and the media in the West as a constitutive "myth" of our current condition.' (Excerpt from back cover)

This publication was part of a project initiated by BAK in 2008, which also included the exhibition 'The Art of Iconoclasm' and a discourse program titled 'On Post-Secularism'. Project summary provided at the back of the book.
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BAK Critical Reader Series

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Onsite

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REF.HLM
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2009

No of pages

213

ISBN / ISSN

9789460830075

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction - Maria HLAVAJOVA, Sven LUTTICKEN, Jill WINDER

What's Wrong with Images? - Jan ASSMANN

The Headscarf—An 'Empty Signifer' - Christina VON BRAUN

What Art Is and Where it Belongs - Paul CHAN, 陳佩之

In the Absence of the Horizon: A Conversation Between Boris GROYS and Maria HLAVAJOVA

On ne touché pas—On Copyright and Iconoclasm - Arnoud HOLLEMAN

The Image as Crime. On the Monotheistic Ban on Images and the 'Criminal' Nature of Art - Marc DE KESEL

The God Wars in Perspective - Kenan MALIK

Beautiful City Book List - Maria PASK

Great Transformations: On the Spiritual in Art, Again - Dieter ROELSTRAETE

Iconocrash: Contemporary Forms of Civil Iconoclasm and Civil Iconolatry. Notes on Queen's Day 2009 - Jorinde SEIJDEL

The Return of Religion and Other Myths: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
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