Taking offense
Subtitle: religion, art, and visual culture in plural configurations
By: Birgit Meyer, Christiane Kruse, Anne-Marie Korte (eds.).
Series: Dynamis : a series on art, media and design; Dynamis : a series on art, media and design
Publisher: Wilhelm Fink
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Paderborn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9783770563456
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Religion and culture; History and criticism; Blasphemy; History; Religious pluralism; Social aspects; 20.19 art and society: other
Other titles: Religion, art, and visual culture in plural configurations
Description: What makes a picture offensive to some people and not to others? In diverse, pluralistic societies around the world, images are triggering heated controversy as never before. Their study offers a perfect entry point into the clashes between different values, ideas, and sensibilities. How is the relation between regimes of visibility in art, journalism, politics, and religion negotiated in plural settings? Situated at the interface of art history, anthropology and religious studies, this volume unravels the dynamics of taking offense in current politics and aesthetics of cultural representation in Europe and beyond.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Birgit Meyer, Christiane Kruse, Anne-Marie Korte; title: Offending pictures: what makes images powerful / Christiane Kruse; title: Art and religion in a post-secular, multi-religious society / Nika Spalinger; title: The downfall of the utopias: Pier Paolo Pasolini's modernist heresies / Norbert M. Schmitz; title: Blasphemous feminist art: incarnate politics of identity from a post-secular perspective / Anne-Marie Korte; title: The Kaaba of New York / Simon O'Meara; title: From the "religious" to the "aesthetic" image, or the struggle over art that offends / Monica Juneja; title: Destroying Krishna imagery: what are the limits of academic and artistic freedom? / Maruška Svašek; title: Blood, sweat and tears: the martyred body in Chinese performance art / Tania Becker; title: Dirty pictures: vulgar street art in Lahore, Pakistan / Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, Asif Jehangir; title: A brief anatomy of offensive imagery / Jojada Verrips; title: Is there such a thing as an "offensive picture"? / Christoph Baumgartner; title: The dynamics of taking offense: concluding thoughts and outlook / Birgit Meyer.