Taking Offense Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations

What makes an image offensive? - This question is addressed in this volume. It explores tensions and debates about offensive images and performative practices in various settings in and beyond Europe. Its basic premise is that a deeper understanding of what is at stake in these tensions and debates...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kruse, Christiane, editor (editor), Meyer, Birgit, editor, Korte, Anne-Marie, 1957- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paderborn : Wilhelm Fink [2018]
Edición:First edition
Colección:dynamis.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434665806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material / Anne-Marie Korte
  • Preface / Christiane Kruse , Birgit Meyer and Anne-Marie Korte
  • Introduction / Birgit Meyer , Christ Iane Kruse and Anne-Marie Korte
  • Offending Pictures. What Makes Images Powerful / Christiane Kruse
  • Art and Religion in a Post-Secular, Multi-Religious Society / Nika Spalinger
  • The Downfall of the Utopias. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Modernist Heresies / Norbert M. Schmitz
  • Blasphemous Feminist Art. Incarnate Politics of Identity from a Post-Secular Perspective / Anne-Marie Korte
  • The Kaaba of New York / Simon O’Meara
  • From the »Religious« to the »Aesthetic« Image, or the Struggle over Art that Offends / Monica Juneja
  • Destroying Krishna Imagery. What are the Limits of Academic and Artistic Freedom? / Maruška Svašek
  • Blood, Sweat and Tears. The Martyred Body in Chinese Performance Art / Tania Becker
  • Dirty Pictures. Vulgar Street Art in Lahore, Pakistan / Jürgen Wasim Frembgen and Asif Jehangir
  • A Brief Anatomy of Offensive Imagery / Jojada Verrips
  • Is There such a Thing as an »Offensive Picture«? / Christoph Baumgartner
  • The Dynamics of Taking Offense. Concluding Thoughts and Outlook / Birgit Meyer
  • Biographies / Anne-Marie Korte
  • List of Illustrations/Image Quotations / Anne-Marie Korte
  • Taking Offense Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations / Anne-Marie Korte.