Contemporary Art And The Church
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Contemporary Art And The Church
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Author : W. David O. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2017-06-20
Contemporary Art And The Church written by W. David O. Taylor and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-20 with Religion categories.
The church and the contemporary art world often find themselves in an uneasy relationship in which misunderstanding and mistrust abound. On one hand, the leaders of local congregations, seminaries, and other Christian ministries often don't know what to make of works by contemporary artists. Not only are these artists mostly unknown to church leaders, they and their work often lead them to regard the world of contemporary art with indifference, frustration, or even disdain. On the other hand, many artists lack any meaningful experience with the contemporary church and are mostly ignorant of its mission. Not infrequently, these artists regard religion as irrelevant to their work, are disinclined to trust the church and its leaders, and have experienced personal rejection from these communities. In response to this situation, the 2015 biennial conference of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) facilitated a conversation between these two worlds. This volume gathers together essays and reflections by artists, theologians, and church leaders as they sought to explore misperceptions, create a hospitable space to learn from each other, and imagine the possibility of a renewed and mutually fruitful relationship. Contemporary Art and the Church seeks common ground for the common good of both the church and the contemporary art world. The Studies in Theology and the Arts series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.
Art And The Church A Fractious Embrace
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Author : Jonathan Koestle-Cate
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-20
Art And The Church A Fractious Embrace written by Jonathan Koestle-Cate and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-20 with Art categories.
A vibrant critical exchange between contemporary art and Christianity is being increasingly prompted by an expanding programme of art installations and commissions for ecclesiastical spaces. Rather than 'religious art' reflecting Christian ideology, current practices frequently initiate projects that question the values and traditions of the host space, or present objects and events that challenge its visual conventions. In the light of these developments, this book asks what conditions are favourable to enhancing and expanding the possibilities of church-based art, and how can these conditions be addressed? What viable language or strategies can be formulated to understand and analyse art's role within the church? Focusing on concepts drawn from anthropology, comparative religion, art theory, theology and philosophy, this book formulates a lexicon of terms built around the notion of encounter in order to review the effective uses and experience of contemporary art in churches. The author concludes with the prognosis that art for the church has reached a critical and decisive phase in its history, testing the assumption that contemporary art should be a taken-for-granted element of modern church life. Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace uniquely combines conceptual analysis, critical case studies and practical application in a rigorous and inventive manner, dealing specifically with contemporary art of the past twenty-five years, and the most recent developments in the church's policies for the arts.
Art And The Church A Fractious Embrace
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Author : Jonathan Koestle-Cate
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-12-12
Art And The Church A Fractious Embrace written by Jonathan Koestle-Cate and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with categories.
A vibrant critical exchange between contemporary art and Christianity is being increasingly prompted by an expanding programme of art installations and commissions for ecclesiastical spaces. Rather than 'religious art' reflecting Christian ideology, current practices frequently initiate projects that question the values and traditions of the host space, or present objects and events that challenge its visual conventions. In the light of these developments, this book asks what conditions are favourable to enhancing and expanding the possibilities of church-based art, and how can these conditions be addressed? What viable language or strategies can be formulated to understand and analyse art's role within the church? Focusing on concepts drawn from anthropology, comparative religion, art theory, theology and philosophy, this book formulates a lexicon of terms built around the notion of encounter in order to review the effective uses and experience of contemporary art in churches. The author concludes with the prognosis that art for the church has reached a critical and decisive phase in its history, testing the assumption that contemporary art should be a taken-for-granted element of modern church life. Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace uniquely combines conceptual analysis, critical case studies and practical application in a rigorous and inventive manner, dealing specifically with contemporary art of the past twenty-five years, and the most recent developments in the church's policies for the arts.
God In The Gallery
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Author : Daniel A. Siedell
language : en
Publisher: Baker Academic
Release Date : 2008-10
God In The Gallery written by Daniel A. Siedell and has been published by Baker Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with Art categories.
An art historian develops a theological, philosophical, and historical framework within which to experience and interpret modern and contemporary art that is in dialogue with the Christian faith.
On The Strange Place Of Religion In Contemporary Art
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Author : James Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
On The Strange Place Of Religion In Contemporary Art written by James Elkins and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.
Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? Answering this question and more, On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art explores the curious disconnection between spirituality and current art.
Memento Mori In Contemporary Art
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Author : Taylor Worley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-28
Memento Mori In Contemporary Art written by Taylor Worley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with Religion categories.
This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue the question of death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery. Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative theological questions, but also to question the abilities of theological speech to adequately address current attitudes to death. When set within a broader theological context around the thought of death, Bacon’s works invite fresh readings of the New Testament’s narration of the betrayal of Christ, and Beuys’ works can be appreciated for the ways they evoke Resurrection to envision possible futures for Germany in the aftermath of war. Gober’s immaculate sculptures and installations serve to create alternative religious environments, and these places are both evocative of his Roman Catholic upbringing and virtually haunted by the ghosts of his excommunication from that past. Lastly and perhaps most problematically, Hirst has built his brand as an artist from making jokes about death. By opening fresh arenas of dialogue and meaning-making in our society and culture today, the rich humanity of these artworks promises both renewed depths of meaning regarding our exit from this world as well as how we might live well within it for the time that we have. As such, it will be a vital resource for all scholars in Theology, the Visual Arts, Material Religion and Religious Studies.
Sanctifying Art
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Author : Deborah Sokolove
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2013-07-10
Sanctifying Art written by Deborah Sokolove and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-10 with Religion categories.
As an artist, Deborah Sokolove has often been surprised and dismayed by the unexamined attitudes and assumptions that the church holds about how artists think and how art functions in human life. By investigating these attitudes and tying them to concrete examples, Sokolove hopes to demystify art--to bring art down to earth, where theologians, pastors, and ordinary Christians can wrestle with its meanings, participate in its processes, and understand its uses. In showing the commonalities and distinctions among the various ways that artists themselves approach their work, Sanctifying Art can help the church talk about the arts in ways that artists will recognize. As a member of both the church and the art world, Sokolove is well-positioned to bridge the gap between the habits of thought that inform the discourse of the art world and those quite different ideas about art that are taken for granted by many Christians. When art is understood as intellectual, technical, and physical as well as ethereal, mysterious, and sacred, we will see it as an integral part of our life together in Christ, fully human and fully divine.
Contemporary Church Art
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Author : Anton Henze
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Contemporary Church Art written by Anton Henze and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Art and religion categories.
"In recent decades religious art and architecture have emerged from their nineteenth-century sleep. Slowly we have shed the trappings of a pseudo-archaism and have sought a new direction in design, based on a return to the dynamism of a living tradition, out of which all great art has come. This is a period of transition, of kaleidoscopic experimentation in many fields; new materials present new challenges to the imaginative designer. The rapidity with which changes occur today is disconcerting to many, who hope for a more peaceful and less demanding pace; yet here we are, and any solution of artistic problems must be sought within the framework of life. Some of the achievements of architects and artists in recent decades are illustrated in this survey of contemporary church art; obviously it could not be all-inclusive. But it remains for us to foster a climate in which art for the church can evolve in a free and vigorous manner." --
Christian Faith And The Contemporary Arts
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Author : Finley Eversole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Christian Faith And The Contemporary Arts written by Finley Eversole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Art and religion categories.
A Theology Of Artistic Sensibilities
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Author : John Dillenberger
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2004-10-19
A Theology Of Artistic Sensibilities written by John Dillenberger and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-19 with Religion categories.
For most of history, argues John Dillenberger, the visual arts were, for better or worse, part of the very fabric of the life and thought of the church. But with the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation a major change took place. Protestant rejection of the visual was matched in Roman Catholicism by the reduction of its formative power. While the visual arts dropped out of the lives of Protestant churches, they became a memory rather than a source of ennoblement or power in the Roman Catholic Church. Thus, in different but allied ways, Protestants and Catholics lost the power of the visual. Part art history, part historical theology, and part theological reflection, this book is both an argument and a program for the recovery of the visual arts in the life of the church, for reclaiming seeing as part of religious perception. It offers a theological understanding of the visual and provides a basis upon which the visual arts may again be incorporated into Protestantism and reinvigorated in Roman Catholicism. The first part is devoted to historical reconstruction, exploring those moments in Western history in which the relation between religion and the arts was in ferment. Part 2 is given to contemporary delineation and analysis: of spiritual perceptions in modern American painting and sculpture, of modern church art and architecture, and of the changing views of contemporary theologians toward the visual arts. Citing David Tracy, Karl Rahner, Langdon Gilkey, and others as examples, Dillenberger argues that contemporary theology is moving away from the modern rationalistic understanding of theological analogy to one far closer to the arts. Part 3 is constructive, developing a theological perspective that demands and includes the visual arts, and suggesting ways in which this can be accomplished in pastoral and theological education. The world of art, says Professor Dillenberger, is more aware of the role of religion in the arts than the world of religion is of art. Thus it is time for the church to resume its historic association with the visual arts, albeit in analogous rather than repristinating ways.