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Disfiguring : art, architecture, religion

Mark C. Taylor (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 1992
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992
Inscriptions (Provenance)
xiv, 346 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
9780226791326, 9780226791333, 0226791327, 0226791335
24952748
Program
Theoesthetics
Iconoclasm
Purity
Currency
Logo centrism
Refuse
Desertion
A/theoesthetics