Variations in Christian Art: Mennonite, Mormon, Quaker, and Swedenborgian
Editat de Emerita Professor Diane Apostolos-Cappadonaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 feb 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780567698124
ISBN-10: 0567698122
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.95 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0567698122
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.95 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
A focus on specific works of art and the artist's who created them draws readers into the theological and religious themes within these traditions and their visual worlds
Notă biografică
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona is Professor Emerita of Religious Art and Cultural History and Haub Director in the Catholic Studies Program, Georgetown University, USA.
Cuprins
List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsEditor's IntroductionChapter One: Art Among Mennonites - Rachel Epp Buller, Bethel College, USAChapter Two: Mormon/Latter-day Saint Art - Heather Belnap, Brigham Young University, USAChapter Three: Quaker Art - Rowena Loverance, Independent Scholar, UKChapter Four: Swedenborg and Five Artists - Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, USAIndex
Recenzii
This well-researched volume offers a rich contrast of attitudes towards the visual amongst four Christian groups situated on the edge of the mainstream and details how artists within those traditions have navigated a path between organisational religious sensibilities and their own personal creativity. Generously illustrated and offering an abundance of insights into the nature of the relationship between religion and art, this book is accessible, engaging and compelling.
The relationship between art and religion is hugely complicated, involving a vast variety of objects, understood in a great variety of ways by people with a great variety of beliefs, approaches and agendas.As religion today changes, its relationship to 'art' is attracting more and more interest from scholars, museum curators and many others.These four studies examine 'art' and 'religion' in four very different modern Western faith traditions: Mennonites, Mormons, Quakers and Swedenborgians. They reveal just how complicated the relationship can be, opening the door to new understandings of the relationship of objects to religion, that key element of the human experience.
Variations in Christian Art: Mennonite, Mormon, Quaker, and Swedenborgian Art offers a fascinating account of the place of art in four religious traditions that have often been overlooked in art historical scholarship.The authors provide important insight about theologies of visuality, the role of images in worship, and the impact of faith on artistic practice in each of the four denominations, demonstrating the significance of visual art even in traditions that have been commonly mischaracterized as iconoclastic.Variations in Christian Art offers an expanded vision Christian art, revealing a rich diversity of religious thought and artistic production in denominations that may be less familiar to scholars and students of religious art.
In commenting on a painting by the artist, William Page, Elizabeth Barrett Browning once described him as "an earnest, simple, noble artist and man, who carries his Christianity down from his deep heart to the point of his brush." In many ways, this describes the effort of every visionary artist, in whatever religious tradition they follow. In this well-written, meticulously researched, and highly informative book, Apostolos-Cappadona provides abundant evidence that art is much more than "art for art's sake." It is the timeless quest to capture in visual imagery, the spiritual nature of material existence. As the writer Joseph Conrad once said, "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see." This has been the task of every artist, including the Christian visionaries that are included in this volume. Each, in their own way, endeavored to transmit to others the visions of spiritual beauty they beheld within and behind physical existence. In addition to being an important contribution to the history of art, this book will be an inspiration to all who read it.
The relationship between art and religion is hugely complicated, involving a vast variety of objects, understood in a great variety of ways by people with a great variety of beliefs, approaches and agendas.As religion today changes, its relationship to 'art' is attracting more and more interest from scholars, museum curators and many others.These four studies examine 'art' and 'religion' in four very different modern Western faith traditions: Mennonites, Mormons, Quakers and Swedenborgians. They reveal just how complicated the relationship can be, opening the door to new understandings of the relationship of objects to religion, that key element of the human experience.
Variations in Christian Art: Mennonite, Mormon, Quaker, and Swedenborgian Art offers a fascinating account of the place of art in four religious traditions that have often been overlooked in art historical scholarship.The authors provide important insight about theologies of visuality, the role of images in worship, and the impact of faith on artistic practice in each of the four denominations, demonstrating the significance of visual art even in traditions that have been commonly mischaracterized as iconoclastic.Variations in Christian Art offers an expanded vision Christian art, revealing a rich diversity of religious thought and artistic production in denominations that may be less familiar to scholars and students of religious art.
In commenting on a painting by the artist, William Page, Elizabeth Barrett Browning once described him as "an earnest, simple, noble artist and man, who carries his Christianity down from his deep heart to the point of his brush." In many ways, this describes the effort of every visionary artist, in whatever religious tradition they follow. In this well-written, meticulously researched, and highly informative book, Apostolos-Cappadona provides abundant evidence that art is much more than "art for art's sake." It is the timeless quest to capture in visual imagery, the spiritual nature of material existence. As the writer Joseph Conrad once said, "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see." This has been the task of every artist, including the Christian visionaries that are included in this volume. Each, in their own way, endeavored to transmit to others the visions of spiritual beauty they beheld within and behind physical existence. In addition to being an important contribution to the history of art, this book will be an inspiration to all who read it.