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Imagining the divine : art and the rise of world religions

Title: Imagining the divine : art and the rise of world religions / Jaś Elsner, Stefanie Lenk, et al.
Author: Elsner, Jaś
Publication: [Oxford] : Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2017.

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232 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 28 cm

Summary

Religion has always been a fundamental force for constructing identity, from antiquity to the contemporary world. The transformation of ancient cults into faith systems, which we recognise now as major world religions, took place in the first millennium AD, in the period we call 'Late Antiquity'. Our argument is that the creative impetus for both the emergence, and much of the visual distinctiveness of the world religions came in contexts of cultural encounter. Bridging the traditional divide between classical, Asian, Islamic and Western history, this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue highlights religious and artistic creativity at points of contact and cultural borders between late antique civilisations. This catalogue features the creation of specific visual languages that belong to four major world religions: Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam. The imagery still used by these belief systems today is evidence for the development of distinct religious identities in Late Antiquity. Emblematic visual forms like the figure of Buddha and Christ, or Islamic aniconism, only evolved in dialogue with a variety of coexisting visualisations of the sacred.0As late antique believers appropriated some competing models and rejected others, they created compelling and long-lived representations of faith, but also revealed their indebtedness to a multitude of contemporaneous religious ideas and images. Exhibition: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (19.10.2017-18.02.2018).

Alternative Title

Art and the rise of world religions

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Note

"19 October 2017-18 February 2018. In partnership with the British Museum"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Call Number

JQF 18-180

ISBN

1910807184
9781910807187

OCLC

982536731

Author

Elsner, Jaś, author.

Title

Imagining the divine : art and the rise of world religions / Jaś Elsner, Stefanie Lenk, et al.

Publisher

[Oxford] : Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Lenk, Stefanie, author.

Ashmolean Museum.

British Museum.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-180

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