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An edition of Taking Offense (2018)

Taking offense

religion, art, and visual culture in plural configurations

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What makes a picture offensive to some people and not to others? In diverse, pluralistic societies around the world, images are triggering heated controversy as never before. Their study offers a perfect entry point into the clashes between different values, ideas, and sensibilities. How is the relation between regimes of visibility in art, journalism, politics, and religion negotiated in plural settings? Situated at the interface of art history, anthropology and religious studies, this volume unravels the dynamics of taking offense in current politics and aesthetics of cultural representation in Europe and beyond.

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Wilhelm Fink
Language
English
Pages
381

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Religion & beliefs, The arts

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Birgit Meyer, Christiane Kruse, 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, 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.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Paderborn
Series
Dynamis : a series on art, media and design, Dynamis : a series on art, media and design
Other Titles
Religion, art, and visual culture in plural configurations
Copyright Date
2018

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Dewey Decimal Class
111.85
Library of Congress
BH301.C92 T35 2018

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Pagination
381 pages
Number of pages
381

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44199682M
ISBN 10
377056345X
ISBN 13
9783770563456
OCLC/WorldCat
1028598001

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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 calls for a multidisciplinary conversation. The authors focus on images that appear to trigger strongly negative reactions; images that are perceived as insulting or offensive; those subject to taboos and restrictions; or those that are condemned as blasphemous. In light of recurrent acts of violence leveled against images and symbols in the contemporary, globally entangled world, addressing instances of “icono-clash” (Bruno Latour) from a new post-secular, global perspective has become a matter of urgency.

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