Art, Religion and Amnesia interrogates the fundamental assumptions fuelling many current controversies over representation, idolatry, blasphemy, and political culture.

Introduction: Art, Religion, Amnesia: Provocations 1. Avant-propos 2. Preamble 3. Perambulations 4. Specters of Artifice: A Hauntology 5. Parenthesis: Art, Time, and the Untimely 6. Godless in Copenhagen: Theses, Corollaries, Consequences 7. Semiosis and its (Dis)contents: Two Matters 8. The Romance of the Eucharist and the Phylactery 9. Art, Religion, and the Parallax of Gender: The Cleft of Delphi 10. The Tears of Thingness and the Amnesty of Amnesia 11. Coda

Donald Preziosi is Professor Emeritus of Art History at UCLA, where he developed the art history critical theory program as well as the UCLA museum studies program. His research, teaching, and writing link together cultural studies, intellectual history, critical theory, and the arts and museologies of various ancient and modern societies.