Art and Religion; how they are interconnected
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This paper explores the relationship between art and religion. Centered on important themes in religious art of the Jewish and Christian traditions, the class will explore the nature and function of b ... oth art and religion, the ways in which art attempts to provide material access to the divine, the ways art (and the destruction of art) can represent power and create religious identity, and how art helps to transform ordinary objects (e.g. writings, body parts) into sites of spiritually powerful transcendence. More specifically, we will look at the topics of the iconography, relics, ritual, purity, canonicity, the written word as religious object, and the interplay between religious stories and their artistic portraya [Show More]
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