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Dis-continuities: The role of religious motifs in contemporary art
Alexandrova, A.
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2013
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Alexandrova, A. (2013). Dis-continuities: The role of religious motifs in contemporary art.
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Illustrations
1. Wim Delvoye, Helix DHAACO, 2008. Bronze, black patina, 470 x 82 x 82 cm. Courtesy
of the artist, Studio Wim Delvoye.
2. Hans Memling, Saint Veronica, 1470-5. Oil on panel, 31,2 x 24,4 cm. National Gallery
of Art, Washington DC.
3. Jan van Eyck, Holy Face, 1448. Copy after a lost painting, oil on panel, 44 x 32 cm.
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
4. Positive and negative photographic image of the Shroud of Turin, photo G. Enrie, 1931. 5. Secondo Pia, Positive photographic image (‘the negative’) of the Shroud of Turin,
1898. 10,7 x 7,6 cm, mounted on board.
6. Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait, 1500. Oil on panel, 67,1 x 48,7 cm. Alte Pinakotek, Munich. 7. Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818. Oil on canvas, 98,4 x
74,8 cm. Kunsthalle Hamburg.
8. R.Mutt, Fountain, 1917. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. In: The Blind Man, No. 2, page
4 Eds. Henri-Pierre Roche, Beatrice Wood, and Marcel Duchamp. New York, May 1917.
9. Andy Warhol, Twelve Crosses, 1981-2. Synthetic polymer paint and silk screen on
can-vas, 50,8 x 40,6 cm. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
10. Ron Mueck, Dead Dad, 1996-7. Silicone, acrylic paint and human hair, half life-size
sculpture of Mueck’s father lying on his back. Stefan T. Edlis Collection, Chicago.
11. Hans Holbein the Younger, The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, 1521. Oil on
wood, 33,4 x 202,1 cm. Kunstmuseum Basel.
12. Sam Taylor-Wood, Sleep, 2002. Photograph, C-print, 69 x 240 cm. H+F Collection. 13. Sam Taylor-Wood, Soliloquy VII, 1999. Photograph, C-Print, 222 x 242 cm. H+F
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14. Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ, 1480-90. Tempera on canvas, 68 X 81 cm.
Pinacote-ca di Brera, Milan.
15. Gert Jan Kocken, Defacing, 2006. Series of photographs. Anna retable, Domkerk,
Utrecht, the Netherlands, Defacement 7 March 1580. Photograph Gert Jan Kocken, 177 x 225 cm. In: Defacing, Newsletter SMBA 2007:100, Amsterdam.
16. Andres Serrano, Piss Christ, 1987. C-print mounted on Plexiglas, 59,7 x 40,6 cm.
Col-lection Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris.
17. Piss Christ. Damaged version, detail. Photograph Jean-Paul Pelissier, Reuters. 18. Andres Serrano, Maurizio Cattelan, The Ninth Hour, 1999. Polyester, resin, natural
hairs, accessories, stone, carpet, variable size. Gallery Perrotin, Paris.
19. Édouard Manet, Dead Christ and the Angels, 1864. Oil on canvas, 179,4 x 149,9 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
20. Gilbert and George, Christian England, 2008. 254 x 528 cm. Mixed media. Courtesy
Gilbert and George.
21. Gilbert and George, Stuff Religion, 2008. 317 x 302 cm. Mixed media. Courtesy
Gil-bert and George.
22. Haim Steinbach, Untitled (Malevich Tea Set, Hallmark Ghosts), 1989. Mixed media
installation. Collection Stedelijk Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
23. Caspar David Friedrich, Cross in the Mountains, 1807-8. Oil on canvas, 115 x 110,5 cm.
Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden.
24. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Childhood of the Virgin Mary, 1848-9. Oil on canvas, 83,2 x
65,4 cm. Tate Collection, London.
25. John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of his Parents, 1850. Oil on canvas. 86,4 x
139,7 cm. Tate Collection, London.
26. Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889. Oil on canvas, 73,7 × 92,1 cm. Museum of
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27. Alexey von Jawlensky, The Young Christ, 1919. Oil on canvas, 33,02 x 25,4 cm. The
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
28. Emil Nolde, The Life of Christ, 1911-2. Oil on canvas, 220 x 640 cm. Stiftung Seebüll
Ada und Emil Nolde.
29. Franz Marc, Fate of the Animals, 1913. Oil on canvas, 196 × 266 cm. Kunstmuseum
Basel.
30. Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VI, 1913. Oil on canvas, 195 x 300 cm. State
Hermit-age Museum, St. Petersburg.
31. Kasimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915. Oil on canvas, 79,5 x 79,5 cm. The State
Tret-yakov Gallery, Moscow.
32. Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism, 1920. Oil on canvas, 84 x 69,5 cm. Stedelijk
Muse-um, Amsterdam.
33. Kasimir Malevich, White on White, 1918. Oil on canvas, 79,4 x 79,4 cm. Museum of
Modern Art New York.
34. Piet Mondriaan, Evolution, 1911. Oil on canvas, 178 x 85 cm. Gemeentemuseum, The
Hague.
35. Piet Mondriaan, Woods near Oele, 1908. Oil on canvas, 128 x 158 cm.
Gemeentemu-seum, The Hague.
36. Piet Mondriaan, Composition 10 (Pier and Ocean), 1915. Oil on canvas, 85,0 x 110,0
cm. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
37. Max Ernst, Virgin Mary Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton,
Paul Eluard, and the Painter, 1926. Oil on canvas, 196 x 130 cm. Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
38. Melle Oldeboerrigter, Veronica, 1959. Oil on canvas, 78,7 x 58,7 cm. Museum
van Bommel van Dam, Venlo.
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40. Barnett Newman, Onement I, 1948. Oil on canvas, 69,2 x 41,2 cm. Museum of
Mod-ern Art, New York.
41. Mark Rothko, view of Rothko Chapel, 1967. Houston, Texas.
42. Francis Bacon, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944. Oil paint on
three boards, each 94 cm x 73,7 cm. Tate Collection, London.
43. Hermann Nitsch, Station of the Cross, 2009. Mixed media on canvas. 200 x 150 cm,
Gallery Boxart, Verona.
44. Chris Burden, Transfixed, 1974. Photography. Courtesy of the artist.
45. Andy Warhol, The Last Supper (Dove), 1986. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 302
x 668 cm. Courtesy of The Andy Warhol Collection for the Visual Arts.
46. Martin Arnold, Jeanne, 2003. Video installation. Photo Leo van Kampen. De
Vleeshal, Middelburg.
47. Granular Synthesis, Pole, 1998. Audio-visual installation. Courtesy of the artist. 48. Douglas Gordon, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, 1996. Video projection. Courtesy
of the artist.
49. Ulrike Rosenbach, Don’t Believe I’m an Amazon, 1975. Video installation. Collection
Nederlands Media Art Institute.
50. Bill Viola, Memoria, 2000. Video projection, silk cloth, variable dimensions.
Cour-tesy of the artist.
51. Bill Viola, Unspoken. Silver and Gold, 2001 .Video projection on golden and silver
panel, 62.3 x 193 x 5.7 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
52. Bill Viola, The Reflecting Pool, 1977-9. Video. Courtesy of the artist.
53. Bill Viola, Heaven and Earth, 1992. Video installation. Collection Museum of
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54. Bill Viola, The Greeting, 1995. Video and sound installation, 282 x 241,3 cm.
Collec-tion De Pont, Tilburg.
55. Bill Viola, The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000. HD video. Courtesy of the artist. 56. Bill Viola, Catherine’s Room, 2001. Color video polyptych on five LCD flat panels
mounted on wall, 38,1 x 246 x 5,7 cm. Collection De Pont, Tilburg.
57. Régnard, photograph of Augustine (‘Attitudes passionelles: Ecstasy), In:
Iconogra-phie photographique de la Salpetriere, vol. II, 1879-1880.
58. Jacopo Pontormo, Visitation, 1528-9. Oil on panel. Church of San Michele, Carmignano. 59. Francisco de Zurbarán, The Veil of Veronica, 1631. Oil on canvas, 70 x 51,5 cm.
Na-tionalmuseum, Stockholm.
60. Bill Viola, Surrender, 2001. Diptych, video on plasma flat panel displays, 204,2 x 61 x
8,9cm. Collection National Galleries of Scotland.
61. Lawrence Malstaf, Sandbible, 1999. Mixed media installation. Gallery Fortlaan 17,
Gent. Courtesy of the artist.
62. Lawrence Malstaf, Madonna, 2000. Mixed media installation. Gallery Fortlaan 17,
Gent. Courtesy of the artist.
63. Lawrence Malstaf, Shrink, 1995. Performance, installation view. Gallery Fortlaan 17,
Gent. Courtesy of the artist.
64. Gianlorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of St.Teresa, 1645–52. Marble, life size. Cornaro Chapel,
Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.
65. Victoria Reynolds, For the Carnal in Dante’s Hell, 1999. Oil on panel. Courtesy of the
artist.
66. Pieter Aertsen, The Meat Stall, 1551. Oil on panel, 115,5 x 169,0 cm. North Carolina
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67. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Slaughtered Ox, 1655. Oil on canvas, 94 x 68 cm. Louvre
Museum, Paris.
68. Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept. Expectations, 1960. Slashed canvas and gauze, 100,3
x 80,3 cm. Fondation Lucio Fontana, MoMA, New York.
69. Berlinde de Bruyckere, La Femme sans tête, 2004. Wax, epoxy and iron,
90 x 60 x 160 cm, Hauser and Wirth Gallery, Zurich.
70. Berlinde de Bruyckere, Jelle Luipaard, 2004. Wax, iron, epoxy and wood,
174 x 36 x 64 cm, Hauser and Wirth Gallery, Zurich.
71. Berlinde de Bruyckere, San S., 2004. Wax, iron, epoxy and wood,
104 x 25 x 37 cm, Private Collection, London.
72. Berlinde de Bruyckere, Hanne, 2003. 180 x 31 x 54 Wax, epoxy, resin and horse hair,
Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Falls Church, Virginia, US.
73. Berlinde de Bruyckere, Eén, 2004. Wax, resin, metal, two showcases
250 x 195 x 90 cm, and 249 x 194,5 x 93,5 cm. Collection De Pont, Tilburg.
74. Hans Baldung Grien, Death with an Inverted Banner, 1505-7. Drawing.
Kupferstichk-abinett, Basel.
75. Bohemian Master, Calvary, c.1360, Oil on panel, 67 x 30 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. 76. Robert Campin, Thief on a Cross, c.1428-30. Oil on panel. Städelsches Kunstinstitut,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
77. Albrecht Altdorfer, Crucifixion, 1518. Oil on panel. Sebastian altar of
the Augustini-an Canons St. Florian in Linz.
78. Hans Baldung Grien, Death and the Woman, 1518-20. Oil on panel, 31 x 19 cm
Öffen-tliche Kunstsammlung, Basel.
79. Hans Baldung Grien, Death Overtaking a Knight, 1510-12. Woodcut. Collection of
