Disfiguring : art, architecture, religion / Mark C. Taylor.

Author
Taylor, Mark C., 1945- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1992]
  • ©1992
Description
xiv, 346 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

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Firestone Library - Stacks BR115.A8 T39 1992 Browse related items Request
    Special Collections - Rare Books RBD1 Box B-000268 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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      Series
      Religion and postmodernism [More in this series]
      Contained in
      Library of Jacques Derrida box B-000268.
      Summary note
      • Disfiguring is the first sustained interpretation of the deep but often hidden links among twentieth-century art, architecture, and religion. While many of the greatest modern painters and architects have insisted on the spiritual significance of their work, historians of modern art and architecture have largely avoided questions of religion. Likewise, contemporary philosophers and theologians have, for the most part, ignored the visual arts. Taylor presents a carefully.
      • Structured and subtly nuanced analysis of the religious presuppositions that inform recent artistic theory and practice - and, in so doing, recasts the cultural landscape of our era. For Taylor, twentieth-century art and architecture fall into three epochs: modernism and two contrasting views of postmodernism. He shows how we can understand these epochs through multiple senses of "disfiguring." While abstract painting and high modern architecture disfigure, in the sense.
      • Of removing designs, symbols, and ornaments, pop art and postmodern architecture disfigure this austere purity with playful images. Taylor uncovers a more profound kind of disfiguring in the subversive postmodernism of "deconstructive" architects such as Peter Eisenman and painters such as Anselm Kiefer. These artists attempt to figure the unfigurable, Taylor argues, and so create the possibility of refiguring the sacred for our postmodern age. Taylor's larger purpose in.
      • Disfiguring is constructive or, perhaps more accurately, reconstructive. By exploring the religious dimensions of twentieth-century painting and architecture, he shows how the visual arts continue to serve as a rich resource for the theological imagination.
      Notes
      • Derrida copy Inscribed by author. Includes manuscript material: Letter from Alan G. Thomas, editor, 8 Oct 1992; photocopy of Witold Rybczynski's book review; photocopy of NYT article. Check-in observation: Bookmarks on pages 252-253, 266-267.
      • Derrida copy Stored in box B-000268. Forms part of: The Library of Jacques Derrida, House Series. House. Gift Books, Works By and About Derrida, and Related Items.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • Program
      • Theoesthetics
      • Iconoclasm
      • Purity
      • Currency
      • Logo centrism
      • Refuse
      • Desertion
      • A/theoesthetics.
      In
      Derrida copy folder 5 8156
      ISBN
      • 0226791327 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780226791326 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
      • 0226791335 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780226791333 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      91039655
      OCLC
      24952748
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