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Re-enchantment [electronic resource]

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The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime, ""re-enchantment"" (as in Weber), and the aura (as in Benjamin) have been used to smuggle religious concepts back into academic writing, but there is still no direct communication between ""religionists"" and scholars. Re-Enchantment, volume 7 in The Art Seminar Series, will be the first

Title Re-enchantment [electronic resource] / edited by James Elkins and David Morgan.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher New York : Routledge
Creation Date 2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content BOOK COVER
TITLE
COPYRIGHT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SERIES PREFACE
1 INTRODUCTION
ENCHANTMENT, DISENCHANTMENT, RE-ENCHANTMENT
2 STARTING POINTS
ART AND RELIGION IN THE MODERN AGE
FROM THE FORM OF SPIRIT TO THE SPIRIT OF FORM
HOW SOME SCHOLARS DEAL WITH THE QUESTION
RELIGION AS MEDIUM
MARY WARHOL/JOSEPH DUCHAMP
3 THE ART SEMINAR
4 ASSESSMENTS
5 AFTERWORDS
MISSING RELIGION, OVERLOOKING THE BODY
THE NEXT STEP?
6 ENVOI TO THE ART SEMINAR SERIES
ENVOI
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Series The art seminar
v. 7
Extent 1 online resource (332 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997012410607605171
MARC RECORDS

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