Art, religion and resistance in (post-)communist Romania : nostalgia for paradise lost /
This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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| Series: | Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe.
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| Summary: | This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious ?affair? in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783030562540 3030562549 |