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Author : John W. de Gruchy
Release : 2001-01-29
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 051/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Christianity, Art and Transformation by : John W. de Gruchy
Download or read book Christianity, Art and Transformation written by John W. de Gruchy. This book was released on 2001-01-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the historical and contemporary relationship between the arts and Christianity.
Author : C.A. Tsakiridou
Release : 2018-09-03
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 252/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art by : C.A. Tsakiridou
Download or read book Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art written by C.A. Tsakiridou. This book was released on 2018-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, it explores one of the most significant ascetical and eschatological Christian images, the King of Glory (Man of Sorrows). This icon of the dead-living Christ originated in Byzantium, migrated west, and was promoted in the New World by Franciscan and Dominican missions. Themes include tensions between Byzantine and Latin spiritualities of penance and salvation, the participation of the body and gender in deification, and the theological plasticity of the Christian imaginary. Primitivist tendencies in Christian eschatology and modernism place avant-garde interest in New Mexican santos and Greek icons in tradition.
Author : Sheona Beaumont
Release : 2021-07-06
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 074/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts by : Sheona Beaumont
Download or read book Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts written by Sheona Beaumont. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity. Modern intellectual enquiry has often been reluctant to engage theology as an enriching or useful form of visual analysis, but critics are increasingly revisiting religious narratives and Christian thought in pursuit of understanding our present-day visual culture. In this book an international group of contributors demonstrate how theology is often implicit within artworks and how, regardless of a viewer’s personal faith, it can become implicit in a viewer’s visual encounter. Their observations include deliberate juxtaposition of Christian symbols, imaginative play with theologies, the validation of non-confessional or secular public engagement, and inversions of biblical interpretation. Case studies such as an interactive Easter, glow-sticks as sacrament, and visualisation of the Bible’s polyphonic voices enrich this discussion. Together, they call for a greater interpretative generosity and more nuance around theology’s cultural contexts in the modern era. By engaging with theology, culture, and the visual art, this collection offers a fresh lens through which to see the interaction of religion and art. As such, it will be of great use to those working in Religion and the Arts, Visual Art, Material Religion, Theology, Aesthetics, and Cultural Studies.
Author : Anthony Grafton
Release : 2009-07-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Christianity and the Transformation of the Book by : Anthony Grafton
Download or read book Christianity and the Transformation of the Book written by Anthony Grafton. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even farther, creating new research tools, new forms of history and polemic, and a new kind of library to support both research and book production. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book attends to the social, religious, intellectual, and institutional contexts within which Origen and Eusebius worked, as well as the details of their scholarly practices--practices that, the authors argue, continued to define major sectors of Christian learning for almost two millennia and are, in many ways, still with us today.,
Author : Jaś Elsner
Release : 1995
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 528/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Art and the Roman Viewer by : Jaś Elsner
Download or read book Art and the Roman Viewer written by Jaś Elsner. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and the Roman Viewer presents a fresh analysis of a major intellectual problem in the history of art: why did the arts of Late Antiquity move away from classical naturalism towards spiritual abstraction? Arguing from a close examination of ancient art images and texts, Jas Elsner shows how an understanding of Roman viewing practices greatly deepens our insight into this fundamental transformation. The sophisticated arts of the early empire, such as Pompeian painting, sculpted reliefs and silverware, entertain the potential for irony, parody, and deconstruction. By contrast, the symbolic arts of the Christian empire, notably the mosaics of Ravenna, eschew irony, while complexity remains, indeed intensifies, as multiple meanings compete to enrich a fundamentally sacred truth. By addressing the subtleties inherent in ancient viewing, this study embarks on a quest to enrich our understanding of an era of profound artistic change.
