The Idea of Tolerance and Visual Culture: Rista Vukanovic’s Prayer Cover Image

Идеjа толеранције и визуелна култура: Молитва Ристе Вукановића
The Idea of Tolerance and Visual Culture: Rista Vukanovic’s Prayer

Author(s): Nenad Makuljević
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Udruženje za društvenu istoriju
Keywords: Rista Vukanović; triptych The Prayer; religion; tolerance; visual culture

Summary/Abstract: One of the characteristics of European artistic practice and visual culture is the epression of various social, religious, and political ideas. The visual can be used to convey the attitude to the society, to propagate different ideals and create social and political contet. The basis for such usage of art lies in the power of the visual to simultaneously perceive and shape the reality. Engaged usage of visual culture has had a very long tradition, and it has always been adapted to the contet in which artworks were created. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, apart from the engaged action on behalf of the church, state, nation and political party, painters and patrons propagated different ideas on society, religion, international and inter-confessional relations.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 25-41
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English