Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Grunenberg, Christoph
2. Hausdorf, Eva
3. Borgmann, Verena
4. Horsfield, Andrew (Translator)
5. Freeburn, Laura
6. Kunsthalle Bremen, host institution, issuing body.

Description

1. 384 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

1. "The icon--this term has long since become detached from the idea of the devotional image. From the religious work to the artist as iconic figure to the pop star, its meanings are myriad these days. The present book accompanies the exhibition Icons - Worship and Adoration, in which the Kunsthalle Bremen pursues the evolution of the notion of the icon--from its origins in religion, its place in art history with such key works as the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich and Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, to the world of brands and pop culture. Thus, the book explores the question of how veneration and the idea of the supernatural are still linked with the term 'icon'" --Back cover.

Subject

1. Icons
2. Art, Modern
3. 2000-2099
4. Exhibition catalogs
5. Icons > History > Exhibitions
6. Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
7. History
8. Icons > Cult > Exhibitions
9. Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. History.

Contents

1. Catalogue of exhibited works -- The icon and its consequences : how the divine reveals itself -- Abstraction : icons of modernity -- Immersion in the image : experience as illumination -- The impossibility of representation : the word and the void -- Worship : icons made ironic, readymades and star cult -- Creators, saints and shamans : the image of the modern artist -- Essays -- Real presence : the power of icons / Christoph Grunenberg -- Cult and image : the icon in Christian culture / Martin Schulz -- Lightness through horror : Kazimir Malevich's 'Black square' and the outline of a 'World as objectlessness' / Britta Tanja Dümpelmann -- Picturing nothing : meaning in monochrome / Aaron Rosen -- Apotheosis of the star : modern forms of admiration / Barbara Straumann -- Wonder beyond belief on Christianity : art / Navid Kermani -- Thematic rooms in the exhibition.

Call number

1. JQD 20-245

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-373).

Exhibitions (note)

1. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany, October 19, 2019-March 1, 2020.

Title

1. Icons : worship and adoration / edited by Christoph Grunenberg and Eva Fischer-Hausdorf ; with contributions by Verena Borgmann [and eighteen others] ; translations from German to English: Andrew Horsfield, Laura Freeburn.

Publisher

1. Munich : Hirmer, 2019.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-373).

Exhibitions

1. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany, October 19, 2019-March 1, 2020.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Grunenberg, Christoph, editor.
2. Hausdorf, Eva, editor.
3. Borgmann, Verena, contributor.
4. Horsfield, Andrew (Translator), translator.
5. Freeburn, Laura, translator.
6. Kunsthalle Bremen, host institution, issuing body.

Other form:

1. 9783777433943 German edition

Other standard identifier

1. 9783777433967

ISBN

1. 9783777433967 (English edition ; hardbound)
2. 3777433969 (English edition ; hardbound)

Research call number

1. JQD 20-245