Religious Art on Decline Due to Phobia of Secular Museums and Schools
THE CATHOLIC REGISTER
By Angela Serednicki,
CANADA---Religious artwork is too sentimental for the art world, James Elkins told a Toronto audience May 23. Elkins delivered his lecture, entitled Contemporary Art and Religion: Do they Mix?, at the Art Gallery of Ontario. “Whenever art and religion meet, one wrecks the other,” said the author of "On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art," who is also a professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He said that secular institutions have a phobia against religion and that’s the reason for the absence of religion in art studios and central texts within postmodern art. Studio artists are taught not to talk about the religious context of their work and students can’t get critiques of religious meanings within their art due to what Elkins calls critic’s fear. [link]
By Angela Serednicki,
CANADA---Religious artwork is too sentimental for the art world, James Elkins told a Toronto audience May 23. Elkins delivered his lecture, entitled Contemporary Art and Religion: Do they Mix?, at the Art Gallery of Ontario. “Whenever art and religion meet, one wrecks the other,” said the author of "On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art," who is also a professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He said that secular institutions have a phobia against religion and that’s the reason for the absence of religion in art studios and central texts within postmodern art. Studio artists are taught not to talk about the religious context of their work and students can’t get critiques of religious meanings within their art due to what Elkins calls critic’s fear. [link]
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