The work of art : rethinking the elementary forms of religious life
Title:
The work of art : rethinking the elementary forms of religious life
Insurrections : critical studies in religion, politics, and culture.
Insurrections.
Author:
Jackson, Michael, 1940- author.
ISBN:
9780231178181
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Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Physical Description:
xvi, 235 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Series:
Insurrections : critical studies in religion, politics, and culture.
Insurrections.
Contents:
Worlds within and worlds without -- Melbourne now -- The elementary forms of religious life -- Art as religion -- The interplay of coming out and going in -- Consciousness -- From Joyce to Beuys -- Production and reproduction -- Axes of bias -- A visit to the Kunstmuseum Basel -- The life and times of Paddy Jupurrula Nelson -- Ecstatic professions -- Art and adversity: Ian Fairweather and the solitude of art -- Transplantations: the art of Simryn Gill -- My brother's keeper: the art of Susan Norrie -- Heroic failure: the art of Sidney Nolan -- Une vie brève, mais intense -- The pare revisited -- A man of constant sorrow: the existential art of Colin McCahon -- Landscape and nature morte: the art of Paul Cézanne -- Art and the unspeakable -- Marina Abramović and the shadows of intersubjectivity -- Exodus -- Making it otherwise -- Art and the everyday -- The work of art and the arts of life.
Abstract:
Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward imperatives and outward constraints, thereby making our lives more manageable and meaningful. Art allows us to strike a balance between being actors and being acted upon.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
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