The Art of the Sacred: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief - Softcover

Howes, Graham

 
9781845110062: The Art of the Sacred: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1845110064 ISBN 13: 9781845110062
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

The field of ’art and religion’ is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies. Uniquely, "The Art of the Sacred" explores the relationship between religion and the visual arts - and vice versa - within Christianity and other major religious traditions. It identifies and describes the main historical, theological, sociological and aesthetic dimensions of ’religious’ art, with particular attention to ’popular’ as well as ’high’ culture, and within societies of the developing world. It also attempts to locate, and predict, the forms and functions of such art in a changing contemporary context of obligation, modernity, secularism and fundamentalism. The author concentrates on four chief dimensions where religious art and religious belief converge: the iconographic; the didactic; the institutional; and the aesthetic. This clear, well-organised and imaginative treatment of the subject should prove especially attractive to students of religion and visual culture, as well as to artists and art historians.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Graham Howes is a sociologist of religion, an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a Trustee of the Art and Christianity Enquiry. He is a widely respected commentator on religion and the visual arts.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury 3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845110064
ISBN 13 
9781845110062
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
212
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