Un Ange Passe …A Conversation between Theology and Aesthetics: The Case of Jan Fabre
Against the background of Hans Urs von Balthasar's and Marc C. Taylor's opposite visions of art, the case of the Belgian artist Jan Fabre (1958-) opens inspiring perspectives. Of particular interest are the angels of Fabre, bizarre figures assembled out of thousands of insects, which elici...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2003
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Literature and theology
Year: 2003, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 374-387 |
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| Summary: | Against the background of Hans Urs von Balthasar's and Marc C. Taylor's opposite visions of art, the case of the Belgian artist Jan Fabre (1958-) opens inspiring perspectives. Of particular interest are the angels of Fabre, bizarre figures assembled out of thousands of insects, which elicit an interpretation where insectology and a metaphoric of fashion cross traditional (e.g. Aquinas) and modern (Walter Benjamin) angelogical motives—hymnology, cosmology/soteriology, and hermeneutics. As of old, the complex figure of the angel raises aesthetic and theological questions of representation and mediation, of (im)materiality, (im)mutability, and (in)finitude, that allow us to indicate marks towards a contemporary theological aesthetics. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/17.4.374 |