Provoking religion : sex, art, and the culture wars /
"In the 1980s and 1990s, leaders of the Christian Right became obsessed with feminist and queer art, which they attacked as sacrilegious or pornographic-and sometimes both. Tracing the history of these public debates, this book provides a new interpretation of the politics of the culture wars t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "In the 1980s and 1990s, leaders of the Christian Right became obsessed with feminist and queer art, which they attacked as sacrilegious or pornographic-and sometimes both. Tracing the history of these public debates, this book provides a new interpretation of the politics of the culture wars that avoids simply pitting religious conservatives against secular progressives. It reveals both how conservative Christians read art through a literalist lens-an "aesthetics of literalism-and why so many feminist and queer artists-including Marlon Riggs, Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose, Judy Chicago, David Wojnarowicz, and Renee Cox-were drawn to religious imagery in their creative work, often casting their own religious and theological visions"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0190938455 9780190938468 0190938463 9780190938444 0190938447 9780190938451 |