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

Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania: Nostalgia for Paradise Lost
ISBN-10
3030562557
ISBN-13
9783030562557
Category
History
Pages
314
Language
English
Published
2020-10-22
Publisher
Springer Nature
Author
Maria Alina Asavei

Description

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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