 | Breaking Resemblance: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art Subjects: Art and religion; Idols and images in art; Art Modern -- 20th century -- Themes motives; Art Modern -- 21st century -- Themes motives; The book explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion. It focuses on the ways artists re-appropriate religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power - iconic and political. Alexandrova Alena : Alena Alexandrova is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.Alena Alexandrova is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. |
