Art, religion and resistance in (post-)communist Romania nostalgia for paradise lost Asavei, Maria Alina creator author. text bibliography enk 2020 2020 monographic eng print xiv, 309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 22 cm 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. Maria Alina Asavei. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-rm--- Art Political aspects Romania Religion and politics Romania Art and religion Romania Romania Politics and government 1944-1989 Romania Politics and government 1989- Art and religion Art Political aspects Politics and government Religion and politics Romania Since 1944 fast N72.P6 A83 2020 700.949809046 Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe 9783030562540 3030562549 9783030562557 (PDF ebook) pda,print UKMGB 201020 20250318215045.6 in00004436951 eng