| Description |
xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part I : Artists : the spiritual dimentsions -- Concerning the spiritual in art / Wassily Kandinsky -- Craft : making and being / Cecilia Davis Cunningham -- The art of deception / Karen Laub-Novak -- Reflections on art and the spirit : a conversation / Stephen De Staebler and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Part II : Art historians : the religious in art -- The seven functions of the hands of Christ : aspects of Leonardo's Last supper / Leo Steinberg -- In alia effigie : Caravaggio's London Supper at Emmaus / Charles Scribner III -- The nationalist garden and the holy book / Barbara Novak -- The religious impulse in American art / Joshua C. Taylor -- George Segal's Abraham and Isaac : some iconographic reflections / Jane Dillenberger -- Part III : Historians of religion : art in religious traditions -- The origin and use of images in India / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy -- Foundations for a religio-aesthetic tradition in Japan / Richard B. Pilgrim -- Judaism and art / David Altshuler and Linda Altshuler -- An Islamic perspective on symbolism in the arts : new thoughts on figural representation / Lois Ibsen al Faruqi -- The sacred and the modern artist / Mircea Eliade -- Part IV : Philosophers and theologians : Reflections on art -- Can art fill the vacuum? / Langdon B. Gilkey -- Artists and church commissions : Rubin's The church at Assy revisited / John Dillenberger -- The aesthetic dimension in theology / Thomas Franklin O'Meara -- Art and ultimate reality / Paul Tillich -- The religious classic and the classic of art / David Tracy -- Question : When is religion art? Answer : When it is a jar / T.R. Martland -- Art, religion, and the elite : reflections on a passage from André Malraux / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Part V : Religion and art : interdisciplinary vision -- Painting as theological thought : the issues in Tuscan theology / John W. Dixon, Jr. -- Theological reflections on an image of woman : Picasso's Girl before a mirror / Melinda Wortz -- Berdyaev and Rothko : transformative visions / Roger Wedell -- Theological expressions through visual art forms / Doug Adams -- Part VI : Bibliographies -- Sources for the study of Christianity and the arts / John W. Cook |
| Analysis |
Art and religion |
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Christian art and symbolism |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. [319]-335 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [319]-335 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Art and religion.
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Christian art and symbolism.
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| Author |
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane.
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| LC no. |
83015183 |
| ISBN |
0824505913 (hard) |
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082450609X (paperback) |
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