Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience

Synopsis

While place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments,assemblages of souvenirs, and music? Imaging Pilgrimage explores contemporary art that is created after a pilgrimage and intended to act as a catalyst for the embodied experience of others. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary artwork that links one landscape to another-from the Spanish Camino to a backyard in the Pacific Northwest, from Lourdes to South Africa, from Jerusalem to England, and from Ecuador to California. The close attention to context and experience allows for popular practices like the making of third-class or "contact" relics to augment conversations about the authenticity or perceived power of a replica or copy; it also challenges the tendency to think of the “original” in hierarchic terms.Imaging Pilgrimage brings various fields into conversation by offering a number of lenses and theoretical approaches (materialist, kinesthetic, haptic, synesthetic) that engage objects as radical sites of encounter, activated through religious and ritual praxis, and negotiated with not just the eyes, but a multiplicity of senses.

Copyright:

2021

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781501335037

Related ISBNs:

9781501335013

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

07/28/21

Copyrighted By:

N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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