Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art
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Paperbound study has some wrinkles at the front bottom, pen name front endpaper, there are a few pages with pencil underlines. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve...
Paperbound study has some wrinkles at the front bottom, pen name front endpaper, there are a few pages with pencil underlines. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011
From Publisher:
During the 1990s the United States was embroiled in deeply divisive Culture Wars. In this redesigned, re-edited, illustrated new edition of the classic study Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art, cultural commentator Eleanor Heartney offers a radically original interpretation of the extraordinary cultural and political battles that took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Postmodern Heretics reexamines this period from the perspective of religion revealing how the most controversial artists of that time came almost without exception from Catholic backgrounds. This book clarifies for the first time how the culture of Catholicism shaped the 1990s Culture Wars. Postmodern Heretics also challenges conventional wisdom about the relationship between contemporary art and religion. By examining the myriad ways that Catholicism has worked its way into the creations of a wide swath of contemporary visual artists; this book undermines Modernist assumptions about the inherent antagonism between creativity and religious faith. A newly researched introduction brings this cultural history up-to-date for our current deeply conflicted times. The Culture Wars have flared up again, pitting Red against Blue, urban against rural, white against non-white and agnostic against believer. By revealing the Catholic roots of some of today's most important contemporary artists, "Postmodern Heretics" suggests how a more nuanced understanding of religion provides new insight into art while helping us heal our cultural divisions.
Product Info
ISBN: 1877675504
ISBN-13: 9781877675508
Publisher: Midmarch Arts Press
Year: 2004
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
First Edition
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