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

Nostalgia for Paradise Lost
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-56254-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 533 g

Reihe: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe

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.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asavei, Maria Alina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Ceau?escu’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 Lenses of Art, Politics and Religion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.