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Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania Maria Alina Asavei

Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania By Maria Alina Asavei

Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania by Maria Alina Asavei


Summary

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.

Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania Summary

Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania: Nostalgia for Paradise Lost by Maria Alina Asavei

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious affair in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe.

About Maria Alina Asavei

Maria-Alina Asavei is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and an independent curator of contemporary art.

Table of Contents

1. Art, Politics and Religion in (Post-) Communist Romania: An Introduction.-2. On the Varieties of Cultural Resistance during Romanian Late Communism.-3. Godless Religious Art of Romanian National Communism.-4. Art, Nature and Ecologies of Transfiguration during Romanian National Communism.-5. Spiritual Ecologies and Meta-Byzantine Music during Nicolae Ceausescus Regime.-6. Contemporary Aesthetic Mysticism and Religious Revitalization Movements.-7. The Body in (Post-) Communist Art: a Site of Salvation and Resistance.-8. Religion Inspired Art and Politics: Neo-Orthodoxism as Neo-Traditionalism?.-9. Art as Resistance to the Religious Affair and Consumerist Religion in Post-Communist Romania.-10. Looking Forward: Looking Back through the Three Lense of Art, Politics and Religion.

Additional information

NPB9783030562540
9783030562540
3030562549
Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania: Nostalgia for Paradise Lost by Maria Alina Asavei
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Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2020-10-23
309
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