Sentences with phrase «art in a religious context»

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Creative and dynamic religious forces are finding their expression not in the context of the organized church, but in film, literature, and the arts, and also in some aspects of science and industry, where people are seeking ways to give institutional expression to their basic religious concerns while at the same time rejecting alliances with institutional religion.

Monographs on Chagoya, however, have devoted surprisingly little space to his editioned work (exceptions are Patricia Hickson in Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia and Shifra Goldman in Locked in Paradise).3 Chagoya's 2003 codex The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals (Figs. 9a, 9b) made headlines when it was destroyed by a religious zealot in Loveland, Colorado last year, but while Eleanor Heartney and Faye Hirsch wrote analytical pieces placing it in context, the Loveland event has tended to overshadow critical discussion of Chagoya's art itself.4 A thorough assessment of his printed work is long overdue.

In this context, art making itself becomes an act of ritual; or as Gerhard Richter, whose thickly textured paintings draw the viewer into unexpected depths, once described it — the pure realization of religious feeling.

«Religion in the Context of Art,» Dempsey, Terrence, E. «Analogy, Meaning, and Religious Experiences in Contemporary Abstract Art,» Soltes, Ori Z. «Transformation: Jews, Christians, Religion and Art,» «Like a Prayer: A Jewish and Christian Presence in Contemporary Art,» exhibition catalogue, Tryon Center for Visual Art,» Charlotte, NC, pp. 6, 15, 25, 40, 54, 63, January 31st - June 1st, 2001.

The height of the ceiling is close to 20 feet, so visitors often don't see or feel constrained by any notion of a ceiling — for them the art on view exists in a solemn, almost religious context.

Taking its cue from the resurgence of figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the exhibition brings together mannequin - related art works, mostly from the 1960s onwards, with objects from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so on.