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

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

Nostalgia for Paradise Lost
Buch | Softcover
XIV, 309 Seiten
2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-56257-1 (ISBN)
106,99 inkl. MwSt
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.  

lt;b>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.

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 Ceausescu's 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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
Zusatzinfo XIV, 309 p. 23 illus., 20 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 425 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte Neo-Byzantine Art • Neo-Orthodox Art • Nicolae Ceausescu • resistance to communism • Romanian art • Romanian folk art • Romanian national communism
ISBN-10 3-030-56257-3 / 3030562573
ISBN-13 978-3-030-56257-1 / 9783030562571
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