Taking Offense : : Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations / / edited by Christiane Kruse, Birgit Meyer, and Anne-Marie Korte.
What makes an image offensive? - This question is addressed in this volume. It explores tensions and debates about offensive images and performative practices in various settings in and beyond Europe. Its basic premise is that a deeper understanding of what is at stake in these tensions and debates...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Paderborn : : Wilhelm Fink,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | dynamis.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Anne-Marie Korte
- Preface / Christiane Kruse , Birgit Meyer and Anne-Marie Korte
- Introduction / Birgit Meyer , Christ Iane Kruse and Anne-Marie Korte
- Offending Pictures. What Makes Images Powerful / Christiane Kruse
- Art and Religion in a Post-Secular, Multi-Religious Society / Nika Spalinger
- The Downfall of the Utopias. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Modernist Heresies / Norbert M. Schmitz
- Blasphemous Feminist Art. Incarnate Politics of Identity from a Post-Secular Perspective / Anne-Marie Korte
- The Kaaba of New York / Simon O’Meara
- From the »Religious« to the »Aesthetic« Image, or the Struggle over Art that Offends / Monica Juneja
- Destroying Krishna Imagery. What are the Limits of Academic and Artistic Freedom? / Maruška Svašek
- Blood, Sweat and Tears. The Martyred Body in Chinese Performance Art / Tania Becker
- Dirty Pictures. Vulgar Street Art in Lahore, Pakistan / Jürgen Wasim Frembgen and Asif Jehangir
- A Brief Anatomy of Offensive Imagery / Jojada Verrips
- Is There such a Thing as an »Offensive Picture«? / Christoph Baumgartner
- The Dynamics of Taking Offense. Concluding Thoughts and Outlook / Birgit Meyer
- Biographies / Anne-Marie Korte
- List of Illustrations/Image Quotations / Anne-Marie Korte
- Taking Offense Religion, Art, and Visual Culture in Plural Configurations / Anne-Marie Korte.