Becoming the Past: Time and Memory in Stanley Fung's Biblical Icons
This paper analyzes a contemporary Taiwanese artist Stanley Fung's portrait photography and his contextual biblical interpretation of time and memory: the experience of the coming of the kingdom can be lingered on in an artist's imagination. As a biblical interpreter, Fung's visual ex...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2020, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 84-99 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Storytelling figure
/ Biblical person
/ Art
/ Taiwan
/ Photography
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Photography
B Visual Exegesis B Taiwanese artist B receptor-response B Biblical Interpretation |
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| Summary: | This paper analyzes a contemporary Taiwanese artist Stanley Fung's portrait photography and his contextual biblical interpretation of time and memory: the experience of the coming of the kingdom can be lingered on in an artist's imagination. As a biblical interpreter, Fung's visual exegesis asks the viewer to reconsider how the historical consciousness of self and community together impact one's sense of time. Fung uses clothing and plants to invoke the viewer's longing for a new, local culture where the gospel can be dressed, and a new soil where it can be planted. Photography as a legitimate extension of the sacred text engages the viewer's biblical imagination and demands a response. Eternal beings and Christian anthropology, as manifested in Fung's work serve to remind us of the distinction between memory and the sacred, life and destruction, creation and redemption. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00281P05 |