Modern Art And The Life Of A Culture

Author : Jonathan A. Anderson,William A. Dyrness
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780830899975

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Modern Art and the Life of a Culture by Jonathan A. Anderson,William A. Dyrness Pdf

Christianity Today Book of the Year Award of Merit - Culture and the Arts For many Christians, engaging with modern art raises several questions: Is the Christian faith at odds with modern art? Does modernism contain religious themes? What is the place of Christian artists in the landscape of modern art? Nearly fifty years ago, Dutch art historian and theologian Hans Rookmaaker offered his answers to these questions when he published his groundbreaking work, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, which was characterized by both misgivings and hopefulness. While appreciating Rookmaaker's invaluable contribution to the study of theology and the arts, this volume—coauthored by an artist and a theologian—responds to his work and offers its own answers to these questions by arguing that there were actually strong religious impulses that positively shaped modern visual art. Instead of affirming a pattern of decline and growing antipathy towards faith, the authors contend that theological engagement and inquiry can be perceived across a wide range of modern art—French, British, German, Dutch, Russian, and North American—and through particular works by artists such as Gauguin, Picasso, David Jones, Caspar David Friedrich, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Warhol, and many others. This Studies in Theology and the Arts volume brings together the disciplines of art history and theology and points to the signs of life in modern art in order to help Christians navigate these difficult waters. 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.

Author : Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0891077995

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Modern Art and the Death of a Culture by Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker Pdf

Uses popular and lesser-known paintings to show modern art's reflection of a dying culture and how Christian attitudes can create hope in today's society.

Author : Thomas Crow,Thomas E. Crow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300076495

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Modern Art in the Common Culture by Thomas Crow,Thomas E. Crow Pdf

Hoofdstukken over kunstenaars en kunstuitingen vormen het uitgangspunt van deze Studie over de relatie tussen avant-garde kunst en de massacultuur

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520961999

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The Forge of Vision by David Morgan Pdf

Religions teach their adherents how to see and feel at the same time; learning to see is not a disembodied process but one hammered from the forge of human need, social relations, and material practice. David Morgan argues that the history of religions may therefore be studied through the lens of their salient visual themes. The Forge of Vision tells the history of Christianity from the sixteenth century through the present by selecting the visual themes of faith that have profoundly influenced its development. After exploring how distinctive Catholic and Protestant visual cultures emerged in the early modern period, Morgan examines a variety of Christian visual practices, ranging from the imagination, visions of nationhood, the likeness of Jesus, the material life of words, and the role of modern art as a spiritual quest, to the importance of images for education, devotion, worship, and domestic life. An insightful, informed presentation of how Christianity has shaped and continues to shape the modern world, this work is a must-read for scholars and students across fields of religious studies, history, and art history.

Author : Robert Genter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200072

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Late Modernism by Robert Genter Pdf

In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism—Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky—and nearing exhaustion were those who took up their mantle as abstract expressionism gave way to pop art, and the barren formalism associated with the so-called high modernists wilted before the hothouse cultural brew of the 1960s. According to conventional thinking, it was around this time that postmodernism with its characteristic skepticism and relativism was born. In Late Modernism, historian Robert Genter remaps the landscape of American modernism in the early decades of the Cold War, tracing the combative debate among artists, writers, and intellectuals over the nature of the aesthetic form in an age of mass politics and mass culture. Dispensing with traditional narratives that present this moment as marking the exhaustion of modernism, Genter argues instead that the 1950s were the apogee of the movement, as American practitioners—abstract expressionists, Beat poets, formalist critics, color-field painters, and critical theorists, among others—debated the relationship between form and content, tradition and innovation, aesthetics and politics. In this compelling work of intellectual and cultural history Genter presents an invigorated tradition of late modernism, centered on the work of Kenneth Burke, Ralph Ellison, C. Wright Mills, David Riesman, Jasper Johns, Norman Brown, and James Baldwin, a tradition that overcame the conservative and reactionary politics of competing modernist practitioners and paved the way for the postmodern turn of the 1960s.

Author : Daniel A. Siedell
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801031847

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God in the Gallery by Daniel A. Siedell Pdf

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.

Author : Paul O'Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Art and history
ISBN : 103213738X

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History in Contemporary Art and Culture by Paul O'Kane Pdf

This unique book offers guidance for Contemporary Art practices in dialogue with history, story, memory and tradition. Artist and Lecturer Paul O'Kane uses innovative and creative means, informed by a storytelling tradition as well as academic research, to make connections between contemporary art, history and the past. The aim of this book is to give readers a sense of the profundity of historical questions, while making the challenge inviting, welcoming and manageable. It is designed to set out an expansive, inclusive and diverse range of potential directions and speculations, from which students can develop personal paths of enquiry. This is achieved by writing and designing the text in an accessible way and providing a range of 'ways-in' series of carefully chosen references, examples, key texts and possible essay questions are chosen and pitched at various levels and can be close-read, discussed, digested, and responded-to either verbally or in the form of a presentation or essay. Written for a broad range of fine arts students, this book encourages readers to reconsider their studies and art practices in light of a historical perspective enhanced by creative contributions from artists, imaginative philosophers and influential cultural commentators.

Author : T.J. Clark
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780525520511

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The Painting of Modern Life by T.J. Clark Pdf

From T.J. Clark comes this provocative study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Edouard Manet and his followers. The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was a brand-new city, recently adorned with boulevards, cafés, parks, Great Exhibitions, and suburban pleasure grounds—the birthplace of the habits of commerce and leisure that we ourselves know as "modern life." A new kind of culture quickly developed in this remade metropolis, sights and spectacles avidly appropriated by a new kind of "consumer": clerks and shopgirls, neither working class nor bourgeois, inventing their own social position in a system profoundly altered by their very existence. Emancipated and rootless, these men and women flocked to the bars and nightclubs of Paris, went boating on the Seine at Argenteuil, strolled the island of La Grande-Jatte—enacting a charade of community that was to be captured and scrutinized by Manet, Degas, and Seurat. It is Clark's cogently argued (and profusely illustrated) thesis that modern art emerged from these painters' attempts to represent this new city and its inhabitants. Concentrating on three of Manet's greatest works and Seurat's masterpiece, Clark traces the appearance and development of the artists' favorite themes and subjects, and the technical innovations that they employed to depict a way of life which, under its liberated, pleasure-seeking surface, was often awkward and anxious. Through their paintings, Manet and the Impressionists ask us, and force us to ask ourselves: Is the freedom offered by modernity a myth? Is modern life heroic or monotonous, glittering or tawdry, spectacular or dull? The Painting of Modern Life illuminates for us the ways, both forceful and subtle, in which Manet and his followers raised these questions and doubts, which are as valid for our time as for the age they portrayed.

Author : Strehovec, Janez
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781799838364

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Contemporary Art Impacts on Scientific, Social, and Cultural Paradigms: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Strehovec, Janez Pdf

Art is a concept that has been used by researchers for centuries to explain and realize numerous theories. The legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was a profound artist and a genius inventor and researcher. The co-existence of science and art, therefore, is necessary for global appeal and society’s paradigms, literacy, and scientific movements. Contemporary Art Impacts on Scientific, Social, and Cultural Paradigms: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of present post-aesthetic art and its applications within economics, politics, social media, and everyday life. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as media studies, contemporary storytelling, and literacy nationalism, this book is ideally designed for researchers, media studies experts, media professionals, academicians, and students.

Author : Wes Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317394716

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How Folklore Shaped Modern Art by Wes Hill Pdf

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art practices, the emphasis on first-person accounts of identity over critical theory, and the proliferation of exhibitions that refuse to distinguish between art and the productions of culture more generally. How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics underscores how the cultural traditions, belief systems and performed exchanges that were once integral to the folklore discipline are now central to contemporary art’s "post-critical turn." This shift is considered here as less a direct confrontation of critical procedures than a symptom of art’s inclusive ideals, overturning the historical separation of fine art from those "uncritical" forms located in material and commercial culture. In a global context, aesthetics is now just one of numerous traditions informing our encounters with visual culture today, symptomatic of the pull towards an impossibly pluralistic image of art that reflects the irreducible conditions of identity.

Author : Robert Goldwater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UCAL:B2501456

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Modern Art in Your Life by Robert Goldwater Pdf

Author : Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822031211295

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Modern Art and the Death of a Culture by Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker Pdf

Author : Janet Kraynak
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520303911

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Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life by Janet Kraynak Pdf

Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a socio-historical process that is contributing to the erosion of democracy and an increase in political inequality, specifically along racial, ethnic, and gender lines. Taking a historical approach, Janet Kraynak finds that the seeds of these developments are paradoxically related to the ideology of digital utopianism that emerged in the late 1960s with the rise of a social model of computing, a set of beliefs furthered by the neo-liberal tech ideology in the 1990s, and the popularization of networked computing. The result of this ongoing cultural worldview, which dovetails with the principles of progressive artistic strategies of the past, is a critical blindness in art historical discourse that ultimately compromises art’s historically important role in furthering radical democratic aims.

Author : Richard Cándida Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207941

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The Modern Moves West by Richard Cándida Smith Pdf

In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts Towers. Rodia created a work that was original, even though the resources available to support his project were virtually nonexistent. Each of his limitations—whether of materials, real estate, finances, or his own education—passed through his creative imagination to become a positive element in his work. In The Modern Moves West, accomplished cultural historian Richard Cándida Smith contends that the Watts Towers provided a model to succeeding California artists that was no longer defined through a subordinate relationship to the artistic capitals of New York and Paris. Tracing the development of abstract painting, assemblage art, and efforts to build new arts institutions, Cándida Smith lays bare the tensions between the democratic and professional sides of modern and contemporary art as California developed a distinct regional cultural life. Men and women from groups long alienated—if not forcibly excluded—from the worlds of "high culture" made their way in, staking out their participation with images and objects that responded to particular circumstances as well as dilemmas of contemporary life, in the process changing the public for whom art was made. Beginning with the emergence of modern art in nineteenth-century France and its influence on young Westerners and continuing through to today's burgeoning border art movement along the U.S.-Mexican frontier, The Modern Moves West dramatically illustrates the paths that California artists took toward a more diverse and inclusive culture.

Author : Sarah Burns
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300078595

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Inventing the Modern Artist by Sarah Burns Pdf

Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped the artists and how artists shaped their culture. Focusing on such important painters as James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Winslow Homer, and Albert Pinkham Ryder, she investigates how artists reacted to the growing power of the media, to an expanding consumer society, to the need for a specifically American artist type, and to the problem of gender.