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Memento Mori in Contemporary Art - Theologies of Lament and Hope (Paperback)
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Memento Mori in Contemporary Art - Theologies of Lament and Hope (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
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This book explores how four contemporary artists-Francis Bacon,
Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst-pursue the question of
death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery.
Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative theological
questions, but also to question the abilities of theological speech
to adequately address current attitudes to death. When set within a
broader theological context around the thought of death, Bacon's
works invite fresh readings of the New Testament's narration of the
betrayal of Christ, and Beuys' works can be appreciated for the
ways they evoke Resurrection to envision possible futures for
Germany in the aftermath of war. Gober's immaculate sculptures and
installations serve to create alternative religious environments,
and these places are both evocative of his Roman Catholic
upbringing and virtually haunted by the ghosts of his
excommunication from that past. Lastly and perhaps most
problematically, Hirst has built his brand as an artist from making
jokes about death. By opening fresh arenas of dialogue and
meaning-making in our society and culture today, the rich humanity
of these artworks promises both renewed depths of meaning regarding
our exit from this world as well as how we might live well within
it for the time that we have. As such, it will be a vital resource
for all scholars in Theology, the Visual Arts, Material Religion
and Religious Studies.
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