The Work of Art : Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life /
Jackson, Michael D.
The Work of Art : Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life / Michael D. Jackson. - 1 online resource (256 p.) : 16 color and 12 b&w illustrations - Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preamble -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 deploys an extraordinary range of references-from Bruegel to Beuys, Paleolithic art to performance art, Michelangelo to Munch-to explore 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231178181 9780231541992
10.7312/jack17818 doi
2016012706
Art and religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
N72.R4 / J33 2016 N72.R4 / J33 2016
201/.67
The Work of Art : Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life / Michael D. Jackson. - 1 online resource (256 p.) : 16 color and 12 b&w illustrations - Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preamble -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 deploys an extraordinary range of references-from Bruegel to Beuys, Paleolithic art to performance art, Michelangelo to Munch-to explore 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231178181 9780231541992
10.7312/jack17818 doi
2016012706
Art and religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
N72.R4 / J33 2016 N72.R4 / J33 2016
201/.67