The return of religion and other myths
Subtitle: a critical reader in contemporary art
By: edited by Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, and Jill Winder
Contributors: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Series: BAK critical reader series; BAK critical reader series
Publisher: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst; Post Editions
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Utrecht [the Netherlands]; Rotterdam [the Netherlands]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9789460830075
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's wrong with images? / Jan Assmann; title: The headscarf-an "empty signifier" / Christian von Braun; title: What art is and where it belongs / Paul Chan; title: In the absence of the horizon / Boris Groys and Maria Hlavajova; title: On ne touché́ pas-On copyright and iconoclasm / Arnoud Holleman; title: The image as crime. On the monotheistic ban on images and the "criminal" nature of art / Marc De Kesel; title: The God wars in perspective / Kenan Malik; title: Beautiful city book list / Maria Pask; title: Great transformations: on the spiritual in art, again / Dieter Roelstraete; title: Iconocrash: contemporary forms of civil iconoclasm and civil iconolatry. Notes on Queen's Day 2009 / Jorinde Seijdel.