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What changes when we religiously worship the toxic? In this era of catastrophe, can a cosmic connection be achieved through a cult of pollution? Toxic Temple is an artistic-philosophical quest to understand the current parlous state of the world. We offer our inner contradictions and destructive lusts as objects of worship. We enter wastelands instead of new territory, leaving space for artifacts, expressing solidarity with the factual. We encounter colorful assemblages of things that connect the known cosmos, tread the shaky ground of novel divinity, inhale pungent odors that transport us to the sublime. Garbage dumps are the new temples. In a mania of sadistic composure we breathe in the here and now. Transformative forces are released, free radicals; rituals that expose the chaos that lurks beneath the surface.

Material culture in art. --- Art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Anthropocene. --- art. --- artistic research. --- media art. --- philosophy.

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Antiquities --- Tombs --- Design and construction. --- Egypt --- History --- Art, Egyptian --- Material culture in art --- Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian --- Egyptian mural painting and decoration --- Mastabas --- Egyptian art --- Antiquities. --- Conferences - Meetings

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This volume examines the occurrence of secular contemporary artefacts (realia) in Middle and Late Byzantine religious painting. It explores the potential of Byzantine art as a source of information on material culture and inquires into the semiotic function of realia in religious pictorial contexts. The first part of the book comprises five case studies dedicated to imperial, official, aristocratic, and military dress, furniture, furnishings, and implements. The creative processes that led to the introduction of realia into religious iconography are discussed in the commentary. The book conveys a wealth of information especially on Byzantine dress and provides valuable new insights into the workings of Byzantine art. It is an original and thorough investigation of a fascinating, yet surprisingly little-studied subject.

Material culture --- Material culture in art. --- Art, Byzantine. --- Christianity and art --- Semiotics --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Art, Byzantine --- Material culture in art --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Orthodox Eastern Church and art --- Byzantine art --- Art, Medieval --- Christian art and symbolism --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Material culture - Byzantine Empire. --- Christianity and art - Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Semiotics - Byzantine Empire. --- Byzantine Empire

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Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various vernaculars, and their houses of worship served sizable congregations of Jews as well as Roman-rite and Orthodox Christians. Yet the Salentines of this period laid claim to a definable local identity that transcended linguistic and religious boundaries. The evidence of their collective culture is embedded in the traces they left behind: wall paintings and inscriptions, graffiti, carved ­­tombstone decorations, belt fittings from graves, and other artifacts reveal a wide range of religious, civic, and domestic practices that helped inhabitants construct and maintain personal, group, and regional identities. The Medieval Salento allows the reader to explore the visual and material culture of a people using a database of over three hundred texts and images, indexed by site. Linda Safran draws from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct medieval Salentine customs of naming, language, appearance, and status. She pays particular attention to Jewish and nonelite residents, whose lives in southern Italy have historically received little scholarly attention. This extraordinarily detailed visual analysis reveals how ethnic and religious identities can remain distinct even as they mingle to become a regional culture.

Visual communication --- Material culture --- Arts and society --- Ethnicity --- Visual communication in art. --- Material culture in art. --- Group identity in art. --- Ethnicity in art. --- Communication visuelle --- Culture matérielle --- Arts et société --- Ethnicité --- Communication visuelle dans l'art --- Culture matérielle dans l'art --- Identité collective dans l'art --- Ethnicité dans l'art --- History --- Histoire --- Salentina Peninsula (Italy) --- Salento (Italie) --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Visual communication in art --- Material culture in art --- Group identity in art --- Ethnicity in art --- Culture matérielle --- Arts et société --- Ethnicité --- Culture matérielle dans l'art --- Identité collective dans l'art --- Ethnicité dans l'art --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Art --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Social aspects --- Apulian Peninsula (Italy) --- Messapian Peninsula (Italy) --- Penisola Salentina (Italy) --- Salentine Peninsula (Italy) --- Salento (Italy : Peninsula) --- Terra d'Otranto (Italy) --- Social life and customs. --- Visual communication - Italy - Salentina Peninsula - History - To 1500 --- Material culture - Italy - Salentina Peninsula - History - To 1500 --- Arts and society - Italy - Salentina Peninsula - History - To 1500 --- Ethnicity - Italy - Salentina Peninsula - History - To 1500 --- Salentina Peninsula (Italy) - Social life and customs --- History. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.