Religion, Art, and Visual Culture
Download or Read eBook Religion, Art, and Visual Culture PDF written by S. Brent Plate and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : S. Brent Plate |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2002-02-23 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0312240031 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780312240035 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Religion, Art, and Visual Culture by : S. Brent Plate
Book excerpt: Religion, Art, and Visual Culture gathers together the most current scholarship on art, religion, visual culture, and cultural studies. The book approaches the study of world religions through the human, meaning-making activity of seeing. The essays move between specific visual subjects (painting, landscape gardens, calligraphy, architecture, mass media) and the broader theoretical discourses relevant to religion and the wider humanities today. Topics covered include art and perception; the iconicity of Jesus Christ; the relation of word and image in Islam and divine images in India.
