'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.
BAK Critical Reader Series
Onsite
English
2009
213
9789460830075
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anthology
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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