Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania

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Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania is written by Maria Alina Asavei and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030562557 (ISBN 10) and 9783030562557 (ISBN 13).

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious ‘affair’ in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe.