Religion, Art, and Visual Culture

Download or read book Religion, Art, and Visual Culture written by S. Plate and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Art, and Visual Culture is a cross-cultural exploration of the study of visuality and the arts from a religious perspective. This forward looking and accessible collection gathers together the most current scholarship for those interested in art, religion, visual culture, and cultural studies. Inherently interdisciplinary, this reader approaches the study of world religions through the human, meaning-making activity of seeing. The volume oscillates between specific visual subjects (painting, landscape gardens, calligraphy, architecture, mass media) and the broader theoretical discourses which are relevant to Humanities students today.