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 / Michael Jackson. - 1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages) : illustrations. - Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture . - Insurrections. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preamble -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Index.
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, 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.
In English.
9780231541992 0231541996
10.7312/jack17818 doi
2FF6E7A3-8DFF-4E9C-9B6E-3625E31ACCA5 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt1h64qc2 JSTOR
Art and religion.
Art et religion.
ART--Criticism & Theory.
Art and religion
Electronic books.
N72.R4 / J33 2016eb
201/.67
The work of art : rethinking the elementary forms of religious life / Michael Jackson. - 1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages) : illustrations. - Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture . - Insurrections. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preamble -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Index.
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, 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.
In English.
9780231541992 0231541996
10.7312/jack17818 doi
2FF6E7A3-8DFF-4E9C-9B6E-3625E31ACCA5 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt1h64qc2 JSTOR
Art and religion.
Art et religion.
ART--Criticism & Theory.
Art and religion
Electronic books.
N72.R4 / J33 2016eb
201/.67