This month's
free English ebook from Aarhus University Press is
Making and Breaking the Gods: Christian Responses to Pagan Sculpture in Late Antiquity by Troels Myrup Kristensen. It's a DRM-free PDF.
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The book demonstrates how Christian responses to pagan sculpture rhetorically continued an old tradition of discussing visual practices and the materiality of divine representations. Focusing in particular on the Egypt and the Near East, it furthermore argues that Christian responses encompass much more than mindless violence and need to be contextualised against other social and political developments, as well as local traditions of representation.
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The
free Danish ebook is
Kunst & religion: fra Byzans til Per Kirkeby by Hans Jørgen Frederiksen. I don't know any Danish, but that looks German enough for me to say that it means "Art & Religion". It's also a DRM-free PDF.
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I Kunst og religion fra Byzans til Per Kirkeby nyfortolker lektor i kunsthistorie Hans Jørgen Frederiksen billedets historie fra de byzantinske ikoner til det 20. århundredes avantgarde og billedsammenbrud. Mens han med den ene hånd udfolder et filosofisk billedsyn med inddragelse af bl.a. Biblen, Luther, Heidegger og Greenberg, leverer han med den anden detaljerede analyser af næsten 100 velkendte kunstværker - og fejer med overraskende fortolkninger vanetænkning om god og dårlig kunst af bordet.
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