Title & Author:

Visualising a sacred city : London, art and religion / edited by Ben Quash, Aaron Rosen and Chloë Reddaway.

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xxii, 314 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Library of Modern Religion ; 52

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Seeing the Gods in Roman London / Hugh Bowden and John Pearce -- Temple Church: History, Experience and Theology in the Round / Robin Griffith-Jones -- New Jerusalem in Four Parts: The Holy Sepulchres of Twelfth-Century London / Catherine E. Hundley -- Failure and Invention: King Henry III, the Holy Blood and the Gothic Art at Westminster Abbey / Emily Guerry -- Citizens of 'London' as Members of Christ's Divine Body in William Blake's Biblical Illustrations / Naomi Billingsley -- "You May See It or Not: John Roger Herbert, RA and the New Palace of Westminster / Nancy Langham-Hooper -- "Crowd Flowed over London Bridge": Visualising London through Dante / Alison Milbank -- "This Melancholy London": Redemptive Possibilities in Some Recent Documentary Films / Christopher Hamilton -- "There is No Wealth but Life": London's Gothic Revival and Urban Resurrection / Ayla Lepine -- Campo Santo of the Dissenters: Bunhill Fields and Sacred Space in Victorian London / Michael Ledger-Lomas -- Religious Office Tower? Virgin Mary's Outspread Cloak in the City of London / Günter Gassner -- Caricatures of Difference: The Changing Perception of Sikhs in London Political Cartoons / Tahnia Ahmen -- Building and Becoming: The Shahporan Mosque and the Unfolding of Muslim Visual Identity in London / Shahed Saleem -- Desert in the City: A Post-Secular Work of Art for the London School of Economics / James Walters -- From Pinjab tp Putney: Origins of the Sikh Gurdwara in London / Peter Bance -- Recent Commissions at St Paul's Cathedral / Mark Oakley -- Museum Space as a Mediator of Religious Experience: Sacred Journeys at the British Museum / Rosalind Parker -- "Real Temple of Jewish Art"?: A Century of Ben Uri in London 1915-2015 / Rachel Dickson, with concluding remarks by David Glasser -- Blind Faith in the City: Mark Wallinger and the Religious Imaginary / Jonathan Koestlé-Cate.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

William Blake famously imagined 'Jerusalem builded here' in London. But Blake was not the first or the last to visualise a shimmering new metropolis on the banks of the River Thames. For example, the Romans erected a temple to Mithras in their ancient city of Londinium; medieval Londoners created Temple Church in memory of the Holy Sepulchre in which Jesus was buried; and Christopher Wren reshaped the skyline of the entire city with his visionary dome and spires after the Great Fire of London in 1666. In the modern period, the fabric of London has been rewoven in the image of its many immigrants from the Caribbean, South Asia, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. While previous books have examined literary depictions of the city, this is the first examination of the religious imaginary of the metropolis through the prism of the visual arts. Adopting a broad multicultural and multi-faith perspective, and making space for practitioners as well as scholars, its topics range from ancient archaeological remains and Victorian murals and cemeteries to contemporary documentaries and political cartoons.

ISBN:

9781784536619 (hardback)
178453661X (hardback)
(eISBN)
9781786720856
(ePDF)
9781786730855

Subject:

Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Wallinger, Mark, 1959-
Ben Uri Art Gallery (London)
Christian art and symbolism England London.
Christian art and symbolism.
Religious art England London
Art and religion England London
Sacred space England London
England London.

Added entries:

Quash, Ben, editor.
Rosen, Aaron, editor.
Reddaway, Chloë R., editor.
Library of modern religion ; 52.

London, art and religion
Visualizing a sacred city

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299240
Call No.: BIB 245350
Status: Available