Rina Arya
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rina Arya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rina |
| FAMILY NAME | Arya |
| SIGNATURE | ARYA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The prophet of the screen: The legacy of Bill Viola
The Chamber of Banality: Hell on Earth
In Sartre{\textquoteright}s play Huis Clos, hell is conceptualized as a psychological state of mind and interdependence rather than a physical place and is manifested through the conversational exchanges between the three characters, who seek to evade their true selves. In spite of this, the dimension of physical space is critical in performances – especially the mystery of what lies beyond the other side of the door into the drawing room. This a…
Teaching & learning guide for cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters
Cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters
Cultural appropriation is a highly contested subject within the media and society more broadly, often provoking moral outrage. It is receiving increasing interest within the academy and the last 20 years have seen the publication of a number of important studies. Cultural appropriation takes many forms, covers a range of types of action, and has many consequences. It is not a uniform practice and needs to be assessed on a case by case basis but t…
Debasing the Deity: The Material Culture of Hinduism
This article considers cases in the media of the cultural appropriation of Hindu symbols by Western fashion designers. Hinduism has a rich tradition of visual and material culture and designers are attracted to the aesthetic and symbolism of Hindu imagery. This has led to protests by Hindu groups who have objected to the uses to which their religion has been put. This article addresses the issues that have caused offence as a way of understanding…
Whose history is it anyway? The case of Exhibit B
In 2014, Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B site-specific installation created a media storm and protests throughout Europe. One such protest was in London, leading to the cancellation of his show at the Barbican. Consternation caused by art work is not a new phenomenon, and indeed one of the enduring purposes of art is to push the boundaries of acceptability and to show sights that are normally kept hidden from the public gaze. From some of the Impression…
The Influence of Roy de Maistre on Francis Bacon
Very little is said about the Australian artist Roy de Maistre in scholarship on Francis Bacon, apart from the fact that he provided guidance about painting processes and other technical issues. There are a number of reasons for this and this article seeks to look at the relationship between de Maistre and Bacon. Although their period of overlap was short-lived, lasting less than a decade, de Maistre was an important figure in Bacon’s early caree…
Inter-generational perspectives on caste: A Hindu Punjabi study
Caste in its manifold aspects has been a feature of studies about the Indian subcontinent. In the last few decades scholarship has begun to examine the impact that caste has had on culture in the diasporas. This article is a study of inter-generational change in attitudes to caste within a group of Hindu Punjabis in the Greater Manchester area. The rationale is to explore whether ideas about caste are generally consistent within families or wheth…
Looking Back at Bacon: Reviewing the Oeuvre
Review of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, with Rebecca Daniels, London: HENI Publishing, 2016, 5 vols, 1,538 pp., 800 col. illus., hardback, £1,000
Abjection interrogated: Uncovering the relation between abjection and disgust
Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, as propounded in Powers of Horror, emphasises the centrality of the repulsion caused by bodily experience in human life, and explains behaviours in and attitudes to our environment. The phenomenology of abjection bears similarities to the phenomenology of disgust. Both involve physical feelings of repulsion caused by a source, and the concomitant need to reject the source in various ways. Abjection is concept…
The Animal Surfaces: The Gaping Mouth in Francis Bacon's Work
Among the most popular motifs in Francis Bacon{\\textquoteright}s painting is the gaping mouth. In some works the expression appears to be a scream, while elsewhere the mouth is open, replete with upper and lower teeth, but beyond that it is unclear whether we are seeing a mouth that is screaming or making some other expression. This article conveys the importance of the mouth as a “lever” for prising apart the human. Through the open mouth Bacon…
Religion, Spirituality and Secularism
This chapter responds to a range of contemporary debates in the fields of religion, spirituality and secularism in books published in 2015. The chapter is divided into three sections: 1. The Visual and Material Culture of Religion; 2. Secularism and the Post-Secular; 3. Georges Bataille and the Sacred.
The Art of Living Foundation: Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context
The Art of Living Foundation: Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(1), pp. 177–178
Reflections on the Spiritual in Rothko
Much has been made of the metaphysical aspects of Mark Rothko’s abstract art, especially his classic works of the 1950s and the Seagram murals. The claims for the spirituality of Rothko’s work are by no means unique either to his art or to art in general. Indeed there are many people who probe cultural forms, such as art, in order to reflect on life and broader questions that can be classed as spiritual concerns. The “revelations” that Rothko’s c…
Religion, Spirituality and Secularism
This chapter responds to a range of contemporary debates in the field of religion, spirituality and secularism in books published between 2013 and 2014. The chapter is divided into three sections: 1. Religion and Digital Culture; 2. Religion and the Arts; 3. Religion, the Sacred and the Death of God.
A Study of Black British Art
Recovering the Sacred: The Abject Body
In the rituals of pre-modern societies that Douglas discusses in Purity and Danger, the sacred was an integral part of community and society. The ‘sacred’ and the ‘profane’ are terms in religious, anthropological and cultural discourse that are used to organize reality into different realms of experience, where it is understood that the realms are separate and only come into contact with one another during ritualized activities. Rituals are regul…
The many faces of abjection: A review of recent literature
Constructions of Homosexuality in the Art of Francis Bacon
In this article, I contextualise Bacon's representations of homosexuality -- that is, same-sex relations between men. The male nude made its appearance in Bacon's work in the early 1950s, a time when the nude was not a popular subject in painting and when, perhaps more critically, homosexuality was illegal in Britain. Other British contemporary homosexual artists, such as Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, steered clear of representing homosex…
Neglected Place of Religion in Contemporary Western Art
In this article I am going to examine some of the artwork of the American video artist Bill Viola to demonstrate the experiences of the religious to which it can give rise. Viola’s work is a meditation on the central questions and issues in life, which include: why are we here? Where are we going? And what it feels to be alive. His work is intensive and engages the intellectual, emotional and sensory aspects of our being. Contemporary art is a hi…
Ritualized Violence and the Restoration of Community
Black feminism in the academy
Purpose This paper aims to be a critical reflection on the author's position as a Black female academic in the academy, and comes from a motivation to raise Black consciousness about the importance of Black feminist scholarship. Design/methodology/approach The author identifies the unique position of Black feminism, which has had to define itself apart from second‐wave feminism of the 1970s, which marginalised non‐White women and the Civil Rights…
Contemplations of the Spiritual in Visual Art
Many examples of art works are described as spiritual but without fleshing out what this means. This has led to wide applicability of the term but without a sharpening of the concept. I address this by opening up a dialogue between spirituality and the visual arts. I investigate what it means to describe an art work as being spiritual and whether the term ‘spiritual’ can be used in more than one sense in its application. I use examples from diffe…
Remaking the Body: The Cultural Dimensions of Francis Bacon
In 2008 the Tate Gallery hosted a retrospective of Francis Bacon to commemorate his centenary. This occasion was one of the motivations for presenting this reflection on Bacon and his legacy 16 years after his death. The exhibition demonstrated Bacon's technical ability to capture the nuances of flesh in a remarkably visceral way and consolidated his position as one of the greatest painters of the human body. In this article I want to concentrate…
Bolotowsky, Ilya
Cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters
Cultural appropriation is a highly contested subject within the media and society more broadly, often provoking moral outrage. It is receiving increasing interest within the academy and the last 20 years have seen the publication of a number of important studies. Cultural appropriation takes many forms, covers a range of types of action, and has many consequences. It is not a uniform practice and needs to be assessed on a case by case basis but t…
Black feminism in the academy
Purpose This paper aims to be a critical reflection on the author's position as a Black female academic in the academy, and comes from a motivation to raise Black consciousness about the importance of Black feminist scholarship. Design/methodology/approach The author identifies the unique position of Black feminism, which has had to define itself apart from second‐wave feminism of the 1970s, which marginalised non‐White women and the Civil Rights…
Abjection interrogated: Uncovering the relation between abjection and disgust
Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, as propounded in Powers of Horror, emphasises the centrality of the repulsion caused by bodily experience in human life, and explains behaviours in and attitudes to our environment. The phenomenology of abjection bears similarities to the phenomenology of disgust. Both involve physical feelings of repulsion caused by a source, and the concomitant need to reject the source in various ways. Abjection is concept…
The Art of Living Foundation: Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context
The Art of Living Foundation: Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(1), pp. 177–178
Ritualized Violence and the Restoration of Community
Bolotowsky, Ilya
Viola, Bill
Remaking the Body: The Cultural Dimensions of Francis Bacon
In 2008 the Tate Gallery hosted a retrospective of Francis Bacon to commemorate his centenary. This occasion was one of the motivations for presenting this reflection on Bacon and his legacy 16 years after his death. The exhibition demonstrated Bacon's technical ability to capture the nuances of flesh in a remarkably visceral way and consolidated his position as one of the greatest painters of the human body. In this article I want to concentrate…
Contemplations of the Spiritual in Visual Art
Many examples of art works are described as spiritual but without fleshing out what this means. This has led to wide applicability of the term but without a sharpening of the concept. I address this by opening up a dialogue between spirituality and the visual arts. I investigate what it means to describe an art work as being spiritual and whether the term ‘spiritual’ can be used in more than one sense in its application. I use examples from diffe…
Constructions of Homosexuality in the Art of Francis Bacon
In this article, I contextualise Bacon's representations of homosexuality -- that is, same-sex relations between men. The male nude made its appearance in Bacon's work in the early 1950s, a time when the nude was not a popular subject in painting and when, perhaps more critically, homosexuality was illegal in Britain. Other British contemporary homosexual artists, such as Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, steered clear of representing homosex…
Neglected Place of Religion in Contemporary Western Art
In this article I am going to examine some of the artwork of the American video artist Bill Viola to demonstrate the experiences of the religious to which it can give rise. Viola’s work is a meditation on the central questions and issues in life, which include: why are we here? Where are we going? And what it feels to be alive. His work is intensive and engages the intellectual, emotional and sensory aspects of our being. Contemporary art is a hi…
Ritualized Violence and the Restoration of Community
Black feminism in the academy
Purpose This paper aims to be a critical reflection on the author's position as a Black female academic in the academy, and comes from a motivation to raise Black consciousness about the importance of Black feminist scholarship. Design/methodology/approach The author identifies the unique position of Black feminism, which has had to define itself apart from second‐wave feminism of the 1970s, which marginalised non‐White women and the Civil Rights…
Recovering the Sacred: The Abject Body
In the rituals of pre-modern societies that Douglas discusses in Purity and Danger, the sacred was an integral part of community and society. The ‘sacred’ and the ‘profane’ are terms in religious, anthropological and cultural discourse that are used to organize reality into different realms of experience, where it is understood that the realms are separate and only come into contact with one another during ritualized activities. Rituals are regul…
The many faces of abjection: A review of recent literature
Religion, Spirituality and Secularism
This chapter responds to a range of contemporary debates in the field of religion, spirituality and secularism in books published between 2013 and 2014. The chapter is divided into three sections: 1. Religion and Digital Culture; 2. Religion and the Arts; 3. Religion, the Sacred and the Death of God.
A Study of Black British Art
Religion, Spirituality and Secularism
This chapter responds to a range of contemporary debates in the fields of religion, spirituality and secularism in books published in 2015. The chapter is divided into three sections: 1. The Visual and Material Culture of Religion; 2. Secularism and the Post-Secular; 3. Georges Bataille and the Sacred.
The Art of Living Foundation: Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context
The Art of Living Foundation: Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(1), pp. 177–178
Reflections on the Spiritual in Rothko
Much has been made of the metaphysical aspects of Mark Rothko’s abstract art, especially his classic works of the 1950s and the Seagram murals. The claims for the spirituality of Rothko’s work are by no means unique either to his art or to art in general. Indeed there are many people who probe cultural forms, such as art, in order to reflect on life and broader questions that can be classed as spiritual concerns. The “revelations” that Rothko’s c…
The Influence of Roy de Maistre on Francis Bacon
Very little is said about the Australian artist Roy de Maistre in scholarship on Francis Bacon, apart from the fact that he provided guidance about painting processes and other technical issues. There are a number of reasons for this and this article seeks to look at the relationship between de Maistre and Bacon. Although their period of overlap was short-lived, lasting less than a decade, de Maistre was an important figure in Bacon’s early caree…
Inter-generational perspectives on caste: A Hindu Punjabi study
Caste in its manifold aspects has been a feature of studies about the Indian subcontinent. In the last few decades scholarship has begun to examine the impact that caste has had on culture in the diasporas. This article is a study of inter-generational change in attitudes to caste within a group of Hindu Punjabis in the Greater Manchester area. The rationale is to explore whether ideas about caste are generally consistent within families or wheth…
Looking Back at Bacon: Reviewing the Oeuvre
Review of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, with Rebecca Daniels, London: HENI Publishing, 2016, 5 vols, 1,538 pp., 800 col. illus., hardback, £1,000
Abjection interrogated: Uncovering the relation between abjection and disgust
Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, as propounded in Powers of Horror, emphasises the centrality of the repulsion caused by bodily experience in human life, and explains behaviours in and attitudes to our environment. The phenomenology of abjection bears similarities to the phenomenology of disgust. Both involve physical feelings of repulsion caused by a source, and the concomitant need to reject the source in various ways. Abjection is concept…
The Animal Surfaces: The Gaping Mouth in Francis Bacon's Work
Among the most popular motifs in Francis Bacon{\\textquoteright}s painting is the gaping mouth. In some works the expression appears to be a scream, while elsewhere the mouth is open, replete with upper and lower teeth, but beyond that it is unclear whether we are seeing a mouth that is screaming or making some other expression. This article conveys the importance of the mouth as a “lever” for prising apart the human. Through the open mouth Bacon…
Whose history is it anyway? The case of Exhibit B
In 2014, Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B site-specific installation created a media storm and protests throughout Europe. One such protest was in London, leading to the cancellation of his show at the Barbican. Consternation caused by art work is not a new phenomenon, and indeed one of the enduring purposes of art is to push the boundaries of acceptability and to show sights that are normally kept hidden from the public gaze. From some of the Impression…
Debasing the Deity: The Material Culture of Hinduism
This article considers cases in the media of the cultural appropriation of Hindu symbols by Western fashion designers. Hinduism has a rich tradition of visual and material culture and designers are attracted to the aesthetic and symbolism of Hindu imagery. This has led to protests by Hindu groups who have objected to the uses to which their religion has been put. This article addresses the issues that have caused offence as a way of understanding…
The Chamber of Banality: Hell on Earth
In Sartre{\textquoteright}s play Huis Clos, hell is conceptualized as a psychological state of mind and interdependence rather than a physical place and is manifested through the conversational exchanges between the three characters, who seek to evade their true selves. In spite of this, the dimension of physical space is critical in performances – especially the mystery of what lies beyond the other side of the door into the drawing room. This a…
Teaching & learning guide for cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters
Cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters
Cultural appropriation is a highly contested subject within the media and society more broadly, often provoking moral outrage. It is receiving increasing interest within the academy and the last 20 years have seen the publication of a number of important studies. Cultural appropriation takes many forms, covers a range of types of action, and has many consequences. It is not a uniform practice and needs to be assessed on a case by case basis but t…
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