Book/Printed Material Interplay of things : religion, art, and presence together

Title

• Interplay of things : religion, art, and presence together

Summary

• "In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and other things. Rather than considering religion in terms of institutions, doctrines, and creeds, Pinn shows how religion exposes the openness and porousness of all things and how they are always involved in processes of exchange and interplay. Pinn examines work by Nella Larsen and Richard Wright that illustrates an openness between things and traces how pop art and readymades point to the multidirectional nature of influence. He also shows how Ron Athey's and Clifford Owens' performance art draws out inherent interconnectedness to various cultural codes in ways that reveal the symbiotic relationship between art and religion as a technology. Theorizing that antiblack racism and gender- and class-based hostility constitute efforts to close off the porous nature of certain bodies, Pinn shows how many artists have rebelled against these attempts to counter openness. His analyses offer a means with which to understand the porous, unbounded, and open nature of humans and things"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Pinn, Anthony B., author

Created / Published

• Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Contents

• Things -- The art of placement -- Artistic expression of transience -- The "stuff" of performance -- The art of elimination -- Pieces of things -- "Captured" things -- Problem things.

Headings

• -  African American art--Social aspects
• -  Art and race
• -  Art and religion--United States
• -  Performance art--Social aspects--United States
• -  Religion and culture--United States
• -  RELIGION / Philosophy
• -  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• N72.R4

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2021002640

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2021002640

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2021002640

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