Orphaned Landscapes Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia

• Main Author: Spyer, Patricia (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Fordham University Press 2021
• Subjects: Religious subjects depicted in art; Religious art
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesia where conflict had arisen between Muslims and Christians. A manifestation of the extreme perception...