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A metabolism of Adam and Eve: Damien Hirst meets Edvard Munch
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
Evolution is a theme which crosses the boundaries of art, science and religion. In this paper the problematics of evolution are approached by analysing the works of Edvard Munch (1863–1944) and Damien Hirst (b. 1965). Key ...
Book reviews. Art and religion in contemporary society
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
Art + Religion in the 21st century by Aaron Rosen (2015) is reviewed by Malin Fredriksson.
A cinematographic fence and ornamental oars: experiencing the sublime in structures of urban public space
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
I approach the theme of the sublime experience in public urban space from the point of view of a visual artist and from one of a person walking through the city. In this essay a concrete sublime experience in public urban ...
The aesthetic turn: exploring the religious dimensions of digital technology
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
The arena for developing digital technology has undergone an aesthetic turn, broadening the focus from a functionalist approach producing centralized systems in the 1970s and 1980s to an increased awareness of the aesthetic ...
Iconography transformed: a few notes on the god Vaiśravaṇa
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
This article aims at an integration of the topic of iconographic transformation processes into a wider context of meaning, in order to enhance its importance from a religious and cultural-scientific point of view. In this ...
Aesthetics as metaphysical meaning-making in the face of death
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
In my ethnographic research on death and dying in contemporary Finland, I explore how Finns facing end of life due to a long-term illness or other terminal condition seek to orient themselves and make meaning with cultural ...
The creation of beauty by its destruction: the idoloclastic aesthetic in modern and contemporary Jewish art
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
Contemporary commentators are well aware that the Jewish tradition is not an aniconic one. Far from suppressing art, the Second Commandment produces it. And not just abstract art; it also uses halakhically mandated ...
The aesthetic turn
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
This paper considers alternative styles of philosophy, based on art or science, through an investigation of Rudolf Carnap and Martin Heidegger. Carnap’s criticism of Heidegger’s account of das Nichts is analysed in relation ...
Response to Serafim Seppälä
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
A response to Serafim Seppälä’s article ‘The “Temple of Non-Being” at Tsitsernakaberd and remembrance of the Armenian genocide: an interpretation’. Key themes discussed include increasing efforts to convey divergent positions ...
Response to Melissa Raphael
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2016)
A response to Melissa Raphael’s article ‘The creation of beauty by its destruction: the idoloclastic aesthetic in modern and contemporary Jewish art’. Key themes discussed include the notion of human beings as created in ...