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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The idea of heaven on earth haunts the human imagination. The day will come, say believers, when the pain and confusion of mortal life will give way to a transfigured community. Such a vision of the world seems indelible. Even politics, some reckon, has not escaped from the realm of the sacred: its dreams of the future still borrow their imagery from the prophets. In 'Heaven on Earth', T.J. Clark sets out to investigate the very different ways painting...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Join the 150,000+ people who have discovered a way to pray with the right side of the brain. Praying in Color forever changed the way people pray-and will change your life, too.
• This is a revised, expanded edition of the best-selling, revolutionary guide to prayer.
• It includes double the wisdom and insight from Sybil MacBeth, from fifteen years of experience praying, teaching, and leading workshops.
• And a foreword for this edition by...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"...Auth takes you on a provocative and colorful journey through the history of Western art, interpreted through a lens of profound Christian faith--appropriately so since, in Auth's view, much of Western art expresses humanity's search for God, the Divine Artist-Creator." [taken from back cover]
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context--but in the process, she also found what she didn't know she was looking for. All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel tells the story of Marshall's relationship with one of our most cherished artworks. Interwoven with the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The Reverend Howard Finster (1916-2001) was called the 'backwoods William Blake' and the 'Andy Warhol of the South,' and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art. This book is the first interpretive analysis of the intertwined artistic and religious significance of Finster's work within the context of the American 'outsider art' tradition. Finster began preaching as a teenager in the South in the 1930s. But it...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images, beliefs, and practices to create a distinctive...
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