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Title Contemplations of the spiritual in art / Rina Arya (ed.)
Published Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cultural interactions : studies in the relationships between the arts ; v. 26
Cultural interactions ; v. 26.
Contents Cover; Contents; Figures ; Acknowledgements; Rina Arya Introduction; Matthew Rowe The Spiritual and the Aesthetic; Franco Cirulli Friedrich Schlegel: On Painting and Transcendence; Nicholas Buxton Creating the Sacred: Artist as Priest, Priest as Artist; Peter M. Doll Immanence, Transcendence and Liturgical Space in a Changing Church; Michael Evans Out of Nothing: Painting and Spirituality; David Parker Outsider Art and Alchemy; Dino Alfier Necessarily Selfless Action: An Enactment of Simone Weil's Notion of Attention
Ayla Lepine Installation as Encounter: Ernesto Neto, Do-Ho Suh and Kathleen HerbertJudith LeGrove Fragile Visions: Reading and Re-Reading the Work of Geoffrey Clarke ; Maxine Walker Painting the Question: Barnett Newman's Stations of the Cross; Rina Arya Painting in a Godless World: Contemplating the Spiritual in Francis Bacon; Harry Lesser Spirituality and Modernism; David Jasper The Spiritual in Contemporary Art; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary This essay collection exploring the relationship between spirituality and art is the result of a conference that took place in December 2010 at Liverpool Cathedral. During this two-day event, artists, clergy and academics from different disciplines - including theology and art history - came together to discuss the relationship between spirituality and art. One of the objectives of both the conference and this collection was to clarify what is meant by spiritual art or, indeed, what it means to describe an artwork as being spiritual. The essays expand on this issue by addressing the following
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Spirituality in art.
Art and religion.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- Religious.
Art and religion
Spirituality in art
Form Electronic book
Author Arya, Rina.
ISBN 9783035304442
3035304440
1299551823
9781299551824