Blasphemy: Art That Offends

by S. Brent Plate

"Blasphemy: Art that Offends" is a prescient examination of the perpetually troubled, often explosive relationship between religion, politics and art. This book draws on a rich wealth of visual material, tracing both the history of blasphemy as a concept and re-positioning the term in the twenty-first century. Questions of censorship and freedom of expression are today extremely volatile, a fact evinced by the recent international backlash against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904772536
• ISBN13: 9781904772538
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 11.2"