Arte contemporanea

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] Contemporary art

Cecilia De Carli Sciume

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Abstract

The section on Contemporary Figurative Art that appears in the third volume of Christian art in Italy is the first historical-critical contribution that aims to organically treat this issue. The discussion starts from the premise that, while the first part of the twentieth century is crossed by the progressive and vital anxiety of the artistic avant-garde that, within the first decades of the twentieth century, challenged the rules of the academy and radically subverted the system of representation, such revolution seem not to affect the body of the Italian churches whose realization, in the unity of architectural design and iconographic program, remains essentially stable as indicated by the Council of Trent. From the end of the eighteenth century, with the Enlightenment, the relationship between church and culture definitely changed. While the work assumes progressively the same characteristics of the self, the values ​​of its individuality and its artistic quality is measured by its perfect self-sufficiency, between Church and Art entered that mutual diffidence and distance that move away as religion from aesthetic interest , as art from religious theme.
Translated title of the contribution[Autom. eng. transl.] Contemporary art
Original languageItalian
Title of host publicationStoria dell'arte cristiana in Italia
EditorsTIMOTY VERDON
Pages266-327
Number of pages62
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Keywords

  • arte contemporanea
  • arte cristiana
  • christian art
  • contemporary art

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