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Re-Enchantment book cover

1st Edition

Re-Enchantment

Edited By James Elkins, David Morgan Copyright 2009
336 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more
Series Preface Section 1: Introduction Section Two: Starting Points Section Three: The Art Seminar, Participants: Thierry De Duve, Georges Didi-Huberman, Gerhard Wolff, Jack Caputo, and Jean-Luc Marion. Section Four: Assessments Section Five: Afterwords Notes on Contributors Index

Biography

 James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Pictures and Tears, How to Use Your Eyes, What Painting Is, The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, and Master Narratives and their Discontents, all published by Routledge; and Six Stories from the End of Representation, published by Stanford University Press.

 David Morgan is Professor of Religion at Duke University, and author of several books, including Visual Piety, The Sacred Gaze, and The Lure of Images (Routledge). He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Material Religion.

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