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Avantgarde Art and Radical Material Theology: A Manifesto

by Sweden) Petra Carlsson Redell (stockholm School Of Theology

  • Hardback
  • 104 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm

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For theology students and art history researchers.

Explores how art shapes our view of the environment.

Discover a fresh perspective on faith and our planet.

A provocative exploration of how avant-garde art inspires a radical, eco-conscious theology.

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Theological thought has long been focused on the meaning to be found in our existence, but it has tended to neglect what it might offer to those seeking how to prolong and improve our physical existence in this world. In conversation with twentieth-century materialist art and thought, this book presents a radical theology that engages directly with the political and ecological issues of our time.

The book introduces a new thinker to the theological sphere, Russian avantgarde artist Liubov Popova (1889-1924). She was a woman acknowledged for her artistic and intellectual talent and yet is never discussed in relation to the twentieth-century thinkers with whom her ideas have obvious connections. Popova's art and thought are discussed together with thinkers like Walter Benjamin, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze and Paul Tillich, along with ecotheological and theopolitical perspectives. Inspired by the activist creativity of avantgarde art, the book's final chapter, playfully yet with deadly seriousness, presents a manifesto for radical theology today.

This is a work of theological activism that demonstrates the benefit of allowing new voices into the conversations around art, spirituality and our planet. As such, it will be of keen interest to academics in Theology, Religion and the Arts and the Philosophy of Religion.

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  • Title

    Avantgarde Art and Radical Material Theology: A Manifesto

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    October 2020

  • Weight

    272g

  • Page Count

    104

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780367188719

  • ISBN-10

    0367188716

  • Eden Code

    5231611