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Breaking Resemblance
ISBN: 9780823274505
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Art Modern; Art Modern; Idols and images in art.; Art and religion.;

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.

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.