Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe: Nostalgia for Paradise Lost
Asavei, Maria Alina
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.
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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2020-10-23
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9783030562540
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56255-7
Dimensions: 210cm x148cm
Pages: 309