Descending Transcendence

AbstractThis essay argues for the importance of stuff for understanding human significance and humility. It examines a number of contemporary artists' work in the motile miniature, the scale of transcendence that suits both our relation to the world surrounding us and to that below our habitual...

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Main Author: Peers, Glenn 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2018]
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 5, Pages: 639-660
Further subjects:B Mierle Laderman Ukeles
B Stephen Handel
B Wolgang Laib
B Joseph Beuys
B Materiality
B Agnes Martin
B James Lee Byars
B stuff
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