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Twelve: The Contemporary Ex-Voto: Reenchanting the Art World?

Mechtild Widrich

Description: Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

In the December 1980 issue of the Italian design magazine Domus, French critic Pierre Restany made public what is perhaps the best-known contemporary votive artwork: Ex voto a Santa Rita by Yves Klein, dedicated in 1961 in the convent of Santa Rita da Caseia in Umbria (fig. 12.1)...

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Mechtild Widrich

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Copyright© 2018 Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture

Related print edition pages: pp.285-295

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.016

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20161

Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsModernism (Art)Ono, Yōko, 1943-Smith, Kiki, 1954-Bodies--Parts

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