"Blasphemy: Art that Offends" is a prescient examination of the perpetually troubled, often explosive relationship between religion, politics and art. Questions of censorship and freedom of expression are today extremely volatile, a fact evinced by the recent international backlash against the Danish newspaper Islamic caricatures and the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh
following the release of his notorious "Submission". This book provides a vital vantage point from which to view the complicated, compelling interrelations between religion, politics and the visual arts."Blasphemy" draws on a rich wealth of visual material, tracing both the history of blasphemy as a concept and re-positioning the term in the twenty-first century.The book features a broad range of iconographic and textual material including painting, photography,
calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, advertisement, graphic design, and film.Works including "Piss Christ" and Dinos and Jake Chapman's "Hell", as well as the films "Submission" and Monty Python’s "Life of Brian" are explored in detail by author and academic S Brent Plate. Also analysed are transgressive works of art, past and present, which walk the line between expression and incitement, by Francis Bacon, Banksy, Caravaggio, Marc Chagall, Marcus Harvey, Sarah Lucas, Edvard Munch, Herman Nitsch and Rembrandt amongst others.
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