Art, Creativity, and the Sacred An Anthology in Religion and Art

by Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane

• ISBN13: 9780826408297
• ISBN10: 082640829X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A collection of essays concerning religion and art, including contributions by Barbara Novak, Leo Steinberg, Paul Tillich, Wassily Kandinsky, John Dixon Jr., David Tracy, Joshua Taylor, and Langdon B. Gilkey.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction
Concerning the Spiritual in Art	p. 3
Craft: Making and Being	p. 8
The Art of Deception	p. 12
Reflections on Art and the Spirit: A Conversation	p. 24
The Seven Functions of the Hands of Christ: Aspects of Leonardo's Last Supper	p. 37
In Alia Effigie: Caravaggio's London Supper at Emmaus	p. 64
The Nationalist Garden and the Holy Book	p. 80
The Religious Impulse in American Art	p. 95
George Segal's Abraham and Isaac: Some Iconographic Reflections	p. 105
The Origin and Use of Images in India	p. 127
Foundations for a Religio-Aesthetic Tradition in Japan	p. 138
Judaism and Art	p. 155
An Islamic Perspective on Symbolism in the Arts: New Thoughts on Figural Representation	p. 164
The Sacred and the Modern Artist	p. 179
Can Art Fill the Vacuum?	p. 187
Artists and Church Commissions: Rubin's The Church at Assy Revisited	p. 193
The Aesthetic Dimension in Theology	p. 205
Art and Ultimate Reality	p. 219
The Religious Classic and the Classic of Art	p. 236
Question: When Is Religion Art? Answer: When It Is a Jar	p. 250
Art, Religion, and the Elite: Reflections on a Passage from Andre Malraux	p. 262
Painting As Theological Thought: The Issues in Tuscan Theology	p. 277
Theological Reflections on an Image of Woman: Picasso's Girl before a Mirror	p. 297
Berdyaev and Rothko: Transformative Visions	p. 304
Theological Expressions Through Visual Art Forms	p. 311
Sources for the Study of Christianity and the Arts	p. 321
Special Topic Bibliographies	p. 330
Contributors	p. 337
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