1st Edition

Art, Religion, Amnesia The Enchantments of Credulity

By Donald Preziosi Copyright 2014
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Art, Religion, Amnesia addresses the relationship between art and religion in contemporary culture, directly challenging contemporary notions of art and religion as distinct social phenomena and explaining how such Western terms represent alternative and even antithetical modes of world-making. In this new book, Professor Preziosi offers a critique of the main thrust of writing in recent... Read more

Introduction: Art, Religion, Amnesia: Provocations  1. Avant-propos  2. Preamble  3. Perambulations  4. Specters of Artifice: A Hauntology  5. Parenthesis: Art, Time, and the Untimely  6. Godless in Copenhagen: Theses, Corollaries, Consequences  7. Semiosis and its (Dis)contents: Two Matters  8. The Romance of the Eucharist and the Phylactery  9. Art, Religion, and the Parallax of Gender: The Cleft of Delphi  10. The Tears of Thingness and the Amnesty of Amnesia  11. Coda

Biography

Donald Preziosi is Professor Emeritus of Art History at UCLA, where he developed the art history critical theory program as well as the UCLA museum studies program. His research, teaching, and writing link together cultural studies, intellectual history, critical theory, and the arts and museologies of various ancient and modern societies.

"Preziosi (emer., UCLA) seeks to illuminate the complexities of understanding involved, variously, in the experience and articulation of aesthetics with particular reference to the relationship between art and religion...Of greatest value to scholars and advanced researchers, this book also offers many insights to other well-educated readers.   Summing Up: Recommended."R. W. Liscombe,  University of British Columbia in CHOICE