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Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist RomaniaContemporary Aesthetic Mysticism and Religious Revitalization Movements

Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania: Contemporary Aesthetic Mysticism and... [The chapter surveys Marian and Victoria Zidaru’s prophetic artistic activism, both during Romanian communism and after the fall of the regime in 1989. The Zidarus’ religious art reveals a constant search for ethical amelioration and social justice. Currently, Marian and Victoria Zidaru’s art is either understood as a form of “offensive nationalism,” or as a dissident instance of religious art that rather conforms to popular Christian Orthodoxy than to the dogmatic one. Against these interpretations, the argument put forth in this chapter is that the Zidarus’ art revisits and refreshes the meanings of “religion” being triggered by a peerless form of artistic prophetic activism. How should we assess the artistic creations of these artists who display their politics through visuals instantiations of their “personal use” Paradise?] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist RomaniaContemporary Aesthetic Mysticism and Religious Revitalization Movements

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-56254-0
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137 –184
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10.1007/978-3-030-56255-7_6
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[The chapter surveys Marian and Victoria Zidaru’s prophetic artistic activism, both during Romanian communism and after the fall of the regime in 1989. The Zidarus’ religious art reveals a constant search for ethical amelioration and social justice. Currently, Marian and Victoria Zidaru’s art is either understood as a form of “offensive nationalism,” or as a dissident instance of religious art that rather conforms to popular Christian Orthodoxy than to the dogmatic one. Against these interpretations, the argument put forth in this chapter is that the Zidarus’ art revisits and refreshes the meanings of “religion” being triggered by a peerless form of artistic prophetic activism. How should we assess the artistic creations of these artists who display their politics through visuals instantiations of their “personal use” Paradise?]

Published: Oct 23, 2020

Keywords: Marian Zidaru; Victoria Zidaru; Prophetic art; Popular Christian Orthodoxy; National communism; Post-communist condition

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