Isbn: 9798765103289 - imaging pilgrimage: art as embodied experience (4 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shortlisted for the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion - Constructive-Reflective Studies Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book AwardWinner of the Borsch-Rast Book Prize & Lectureship An Oxford Alumni Book of the Month pickWhile place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments, assemblages of souvenirs, and music Imaging Pilgrimage explores contemporary art that is created after a pilgrimage and intended to act as a catalyst for the embodied experience of others. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary artwork that links one landscape to another-from the Spanish Camino to a backyard in the Pacific Northwest, from Lourdes to South Africa, from Jerusalem to England, and from Ecuador to California. The close attention to context and experience allows for popular practices like the making of third-class or 'contact' relics to augment conversations about the authenticity or perceived power of a replica or copy; it also challenges the tendency to think of the 'original' in hierarchical terms.The book brings various fields into conversation by offering a number of lenses and theoretical approaches (materialist, kinesthetic, haptic, synesthetic) that engage objects as radical sites of encounter, activated through religious and ritual praxis, and negotiated with not just the eyes, but a multiplicity of senses.The first full-length study to engage contemporary art that has emerged out of the embodied experience of pilgrimage, Imaging Pilgrimage is an important and timely addition to the field of material and visual culture of religion. It is essential reading for anyone interested in pilgrimage studies, material culture, and the place of religion within contemporary art.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorKathryn R. BarushInhaltsverzeichnisAcknowledgmentsList of PlatesList of FiguresIntroduction: Art as Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage as ArtI. Vashon Island - Spain: A Backyard .