Idols of the market : modern iconoclasm and the fundamentalist spectacle

"In this is a book-length essay, art critic and historian Sven Lutticken takes philosopher Theodor Adorno's critique of popular arts and culture a step further. Adorno criticized the manipulation of taste in official cultures and the pretense of individualism; Lutticken looks at the tension between fundamentalism and individualism in the context of the current religious-political image wars. This book examines both the afterlife of religious elements in modern culture and possible responses to the current religious re-appropriation of Adorno's critique of modern capitalist culture by both Christian fundamentalists and radical Islamists... "

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
ISBN
9781933128269
1933128267
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
245 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Ill.
Literaturangaben

Keyword
Geschichte 1900-2009
Geschichte
Kunst
Religion
Fundamentalismus
Kunst
Religion
Bildersturm

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin, New York, NY
(who)
Sternberg Press
(when)
2009
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Time of origin

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