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Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania - Nostalgia for Paradise Lost

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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.  

List 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 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.

About the author










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.

Product details

Authors Maria Alina Asavei
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 06.11.2021
 
EAN 9783030562571
ISBN 978-3-0-3056257-1
No. of pages 309
Dimensions 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
Illustrations XIV, 309 p. 23 illus., 20 illus. in color.
Series Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories

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