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This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious ‘affair’ in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe.
Grève de la faim, trottoirs occupés par les manifestants, mairie prise d'assaut. Mais aussi un étudiant qui séduit l'amante de son professeur. Des poings levés, des manifestations violentes, des accusations scandées par la foule contre le gouvernement. Puis une vieille se cachant pour retrouver son amoureux, la noce chez les mafieux, un assassin sans scrupule, un médecin criminel. Quelques poulets picorant des tomates. Les histoires de Dumitru Crudu nous restituent tout le fourmillement de la vie d'aujourd'hui, dans un langage savoureux, avec une verve et un humour que l'on partage dans le sourire et l'émotion.