Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania
Author | : Maria Alina Asavei |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783030562557 |
ISBN-13 | : 3030562557 |
Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Download or read book Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania written by Maria Alina Asavei and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.