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Jackson, Michael, (1940-)

The work of art = rethinking the elementary forms of religious life /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The work of art / Michael Jackson
Reminder of title:	rethinking the elementary forms of religious life /
Author:	Jackson, Michael,
Description:	1 online resource
Subject:	Art and religion -
Online resource:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/COLB0002284.html
ISBN:	9780231541992

The work of art = rethinking the elementary forms of religious life /
Jackson, Michael,1940-

The work of art rethinking the elementary forms of religious life /[electronic resource] :Michael Jackson - 1 online resource - Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture. - Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Frontmatter --

How are we to think of works of art' Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward imperatives and outward constraints, thereby making our lives more manageable and meaningful. Art allows us to strike a balance between being actors and being acted upon. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia and West Africa, as well as insights from psychoanalysis, religious studies, literature, and the philosophy of art, Jackson uses an extraordinary range of references'from Bruegel to Beuys,

In English

ISBN: 9780231541992Subjects--Topical Terms:

1176368
Art and religion
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

761329
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: N72.R4 / J33 2016eb

Dewey Class. No.: 201/.67

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520 $a Paleolithic art to performance art, Michelangelo to Munch'in exploring the symbolic labor whereby human beings make themselves, both individually and socially, out of the environmental, biographical, and physical materials that affect them: a process that connects art with gestation, storytelling, and dreaming and illuminates the elementary forms of religious life
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