Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania: Nostalgia for Paradise Lost 1st Edition Maria Alina Asavei

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• ISBN 10: 3030562557
• ISBN 13:9783030562557
• Author: Maria Alina Asavei

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious ‘affair’ in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe.

Table contents:

1. Art, Politics and Religion in (Post-)Communist Romania: An Introduction
2. On the Varieties of Cultural Resistance During Romanian Late Communism
3. Godless Religious Art of Romanian National Communism
4. Art, Nature and Ecologies of Transfiguration during Romanian National Communism
5. Spiritual Ecologies and Meta-Byzantine: Music During Nicolae Ceauṣescu’s Regime
6. Contemporary Aesthetic Mysticism and Religious Revitalization Movements
7. The Body in (Post-)Communist Art: A Site of Salvation and Resistance
8. Religion Inspired Art and Politics: Neo-Orthodoxism as Neo-Traditionalism?
9. Art as Resistance to the “Religious Affair” and Consumerist Religion in Post-Communist Romania
10. Looking Forward: Looking Back Through the Three Lenses of Art, Politics and Religion

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