Title & Author:

Art, creativity, and the sacred : an anthology in religion and art / edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona.

Edition:

New revised edition

Publication:

New York : Continuum, [1995]
© 1995

Description:

xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : Crossroad, 1984.
"1996"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-336).
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 -- 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 -- 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 Isben Al Faruqi -- The sacred and the modern artist / Mircea Eliade -- 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 -- 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 -- Sources for the study of Christianity and the arts / John W. Cook.
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Library copy: 1998 printing.

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

082640829X
9780826408297

Subject:

Art and religion.
Christian art and symbolism.
Art et religion.
Kunstenaarschap.
Godsdienst.
Creativiteit.

Added entries:

Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane, editor.
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288859
Call No.: BIB 230825
Status: Available