Tradition And Transformation In Christian Art

Author : C.A. Tsakiridou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351187251

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Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art by C.A. Tsakiridou Pdf

Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, it explores one of the most significant ascetical and eschatological Christian images, the King of Glory (Man of Sorrows). This icon of the dead-living Christ originated in Byzantium, migrated west, and was promoted in the New World by Franciscan and Dominican missions. Themes include tensions between Byzantine and Latin spiritualities of penance and salvation, the participation of the body and gender in deification, and the theological plasticity of the Christian imaginary. Primitivist tendencies in Christian eschatology and modernism place avant-garde interest in New Mexican santos and Greek icons in tradition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489141

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Signs of Change by Anonim Pdf

Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000–2000 focuses on the changing relationships between what gradually emerged as the Arts and Christianity, the latter term covering both a stream of ideas and its institutions. The book as a whole is addressed to a general academic audience concerned with issues of cultural history, while the individual essays are also intended as scholarly contributions within their own fields. A collaborative effort by twenty-five European and American scholars representing disciplines ranging from aesthetics to the history of art and architecture, from literature, music and the theatre to classics, church history, and theology, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of intermedial phenomena, generally in larger cultural and intellectual contexts. The focus of topics extends from single concrete objects to sets of abstract concepts and values, and from a single moment in time to an entire millennium. While Signs of Change acknowledges the importance of synthesizing efforts essential to hermeneutically informed scholarship, in order to counterbalance generalized historical narratives with detailed investigations, broad accounts are juxtaposed with specialized research projects. The deliberately unchronological grouping of contributions underlines the effort to further discussion about methodologies for writing cultural history.

Author : John W. de Gruchy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521772052

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Christianity, Art and Transformation by John W. de Gruchy Pdf

This book explores the historical and contemporary relationship between the arts and Christianity.

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1933316128

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The Foundations of Christian Art by Titus Burckhardt Pdf

Titus Burckhardt was a renowned expert on the art of traditional worlds. This book takes the reader through the history of Christian art, focusing especially upon architecture, iconography, and illumination.

Author : Andrew Paterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000600162

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Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons by Andrew Paterson Pdf

This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other well-established genres of ‘sacred portrait’ also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial portraiture, Graeco-Egyptian funerary portraiture and panel paintings depicting non-Christian deities. Andrew Paterson addresses two fundamental questions about devotional portraiture – both Christian and non-Christian – in the late antique period. Firstly, how did artists visualise and construct these images of divine or sanctified figures? And secondly, how did their intended viewers look at, respond to, and even interact with these images? Paterson argues that a key factor of many of these portrait images is the emphasis given to the depicted gaze, which invites an intensified form of personal encounter with the portrait’s subject. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, theology, religion and classical studies.

Author : Sheona Beaumont,Madeleine Emerald Thiele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000386073

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Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts by Sheona Beaumont,Madeleine Emerald Thiele Pdf

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity. Modern intellectual enquiry has often been reluctant to engage theology as an enriching or useful form of visual analysis, but critics are increasingly revisiting religious narratives and Christian thought in pursuit of understanding our present-day visual culture. In this book an international group of contributors demonstrate how theology is often implicit within artworks and how, regardless of a viewer’s personal faith, it can become implicit in a viewer’s visual encounter. Their observations include deliberate juxtaposition of Christian symbols, imaginative play with theologies, the validation of non-confessional or secular public engagement, and inversions of biblical interpretation. Case studies such as an interactive Easter, glow-sticks as sacrament, and visualisation of the Bible’s polyphonic voices enrich this discussion. Together, they call for a greater interpretative generosity and more nuance around theology’s cultural contexts in the modern era. By engaging with theology, culture, and the visual art, this collection offers a fresh lens through which to see the interaction of religion and art. As such, it will be of great use to those working in Religion and the Arts, Visual Art, Material Religion, Theology, Aesthetics, and Cultural Studies.

Author : Douglas G. Adams,Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579106355

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Art As Religious Studies by Douglas G. Adams,Diane Apostolos-Cappadona Pdf

Author : Aidan Nichols
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498297479

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The Art of God Incarnate by Aidan Nichols Pdf

The Art of God Incarnate proposes that visual art is a good way to think of how the incarnation--the central truth-claim of Christianity--can be said to reveal the divine. In the book of Genesis, the human being, fresh from the hands of the Creator, is the image of God in the temple of the world. In an environment of distorted images the prophets sought to make visible by symbolic gestures the divine attitude toward Israel, as well as looking forward to a new divine intervention to redeem history and transfigure human lives. For the New Testament faith, this transforming intervention has come about through the restoration of the divine image in man. Jesus Christ is the true and living icon of the Father and the model from whose radiance human beings generally can be re-fashioned. Despite the anti-iconic legislation of the Hebrew Bible, it was inevitable, therefore, that under the New Covenant a visual art would make its appearance, since God had now made himself visible in his humanized Son. During the iconoclast crisis which shook the Eastern Roman Empire, it was the achievement of the later Greek fathers to spell out this claim doctrinally. Modern aesthetics can throw further light, especially by way of phenomenology and semiotics, on how an artwork can be a communicator of meaning and truth. Finally, there is the question of how human beings are to make their own this revelation of God in the visual realm. In the Latin tradition, especially among the monastic teachers of the twelfth century, the biblical theme of man made in the divine image and likeness was used to speak of how people can be changed by the fresh resources that revelation provides. Through growth in charity they themselves can become saints, "images" of God.

Author : Muhammad Shafiq,Thomas Donlin-Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031271212

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Mystical Traditions by Muhammad Shafiq,Thomas Donlin-Smith Pdf

This book discusses mysticism and its possible contributions to a positive common human future. It is organized into three parts - “Studies of Mystical Traditions,” “Comparative Studies of Mystical Traditions,” and “Social and Ethical Implications." The approach is philosophical and critical. The contributors differ on whether or not mystical traditions would restore peaceful living and peaceful coexistence. However, the problem before this manuscript is the growing pain and suffering caused by greed in the world, greed causing economic disequilibrium, racism and divisiveness causing social unrest resulting in mass migration and refugees’ crisis. Through the lens of “mystical traditions," the manuscript proposes a balance approach between material and spiritual needs of people. To strengthen human spiritualty, the manuscript emphasizes practicing meditation, music, prayers, zikr, yoga, mindfulness, fasting and other methods of spiritual revival for peace within self and with others.

Author : Barbara A. Kaminska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004408401

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder by Barbara A. Kaminska Pdf

In Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community Barbara Kaminska offers the first book-length study of Bruegel’s biblical paintings, and argues that they were inherently linked to Antwerp’s religious, socio-economic, and cultural transformation.

Author : Clare Cavanagh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400821495

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Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition by Clare Cavanagh Pdf

If modernism marked, as some critics claim, an "apocalypse of cultural community," then Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) must rank among its most representative figures. Born to Central European Jews in Warsaw on the cusp of the modern age, he could claim neither Russian nor European traditions as his birthright. Describing the poetic movement he helped to found, Acmeism, as a "yearning for world culture," he defined the impulse that charges his own poetry and prose. Clare Cavanagh has written a sustained study placing Mandelstam's "remembrance and invention" of a usable poetic past in the context of modernist writing in general, with particular attention to the work of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Cavanagh traces Mandelstam’s creation of tradition from his earliest lyrics to his last verses, written shortly before his arrest and subsequent death in a Stalinist camp. Her work shows how the poet, generalizing from his own dilemmas and disruptions, addressed his epoch’s paradoxical legacy of disinheritance--and how he responded to this unwelcome legacy with one of modernism’s most complex, ambitious, and challenging visions of tradition. Drawing on not only Russian and Western modernist writing and theory, but also modern European Jewish culture, Russian religious thought, postrevolutionary politics, and even silent film, Cavanagh traces Mandelstam’s recovery of a "world culture" vital, vast, and varied enough to satisfy the desires of the quintessential outcast modernist.

Author : Bhikshuni Lozang Trinlae
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643909657

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Kun-mkhyen Pad-ma dKar-po's Amitayus Tradition of Vajrayana Buddhist Transformative Care by Bhikshuni Lozang Trinlae Pdf

The book opens fresh ground in Buddhist studies and practical theology by applying phenomenological research methods to empirically discern transformative aspects of contemplative experience using reports elicited directly from contemporary practitioners. The work portrays the experiences of performing Kun-mkyen Pad-ma dKar-po's 16th c. ritual in a practice tradition attributed to the 12th c. female Indian teacher Siddharaj�±i. Preliminary spiritual care and contemplative factor models are presented along with a detailed theoretical process analysis of positive spiritual development as a method of ��spiritual care through the contemplative action of the liturgy. Bhikshuni Lozang Trinlae is a fully ordained Buddhist monastic, contemplative, practical theologian, and chaplain. Founder of Mahaprajapati Vihar hermitage in Solukhumbu, Nepal, her scholarly work is in the areas of contemplative studies and hermeneutics of lived religion, and it explores the epistemological and transformative characteristics of religious experience. (Series: Pastoral Care and Spiritual Healing / Spiritualit�¤t interkulturell, Vol. 6) [Subject: Buddhist Studies, Pastoral Care]

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004226371

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The Turn of the Soul by Anonim Pdf

The religious upheavals of the early modern period and the fierce debate they unleashed about true devotion gave conversion an unprecedented urgency. With their rich variety of emotive, aesthetic and rhetoric means of expression, literature and the visual arts proved particularly well-adapted means to address, explore and represent the complex nature of conversion. At the same time, many artists and authors experimented with the notion that the expressive character of their work could cultivate a sensory experience for the viewer that enacted conversion. Indeed, focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe’s most pressing religious issues, this volume demonstrates that conversion cannot be separated from the creative and spiritual ways in which it was given meaning. Contributors include Mathilde Bernard, John R. Decker, Xander van Eck, Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi, Lise Gosseye, Chloë Houston, Philip Major, Walter Melion, Bart Ramakers, E. Natalie Rothman, Alison Searle, Lieke Stelling, Jayme Yeo, and Federico Zuliani.

Author : Ron O'Grady
Publisher : World Council of Churches
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 2825413399

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Christ for All People by Ron O'Grady Pdf

This striking collection -- presented in full colour -- includes some of the best contemporary Christian art from around the world and offers a moving journey through the life of Jesus. Christian art is a vibrant, inspiring and, above all, living tradition. The collection presented in this beautifully produced book testifies to the mission and talent of numerous artists worldwide. More than a 100 outstanding paintings and sculptures illuminate episodes in the story of Jesus. Short reflections accompany the images, adding to their relevance, enhancing their beauty and strengthening their power.

Author : Su-Chi Lin
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374057573

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Spaces of Mediation by Su-Chi Lin Pdf

Drawing upon fine art and objects made for pedagogical and devotional needs of the local Christian communities, including prints, posters, paintings, and photographs dating from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume mainly explores Christian art in Taiwan. By recognizing the artistic development from merely adapting traditional Christian iconography to creating new indigenous narratives, Su-Chi Lin examines the issue of visual representation raised in such inculturation processes, and considers whether these artworks offer models to re-imagine the contextual illustration of global Christian faith. [Räume der Vermittlung. Christliche Kunst und visuelle Kultur in Taiwan] Der vorliegende Band erkundet christliche Kunst in Taiwan am Beispiel von Bildender Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, das für pädagogische und devotionale Zwecke der lokalen christlichen Gemeinschaften geschaffen wurde. Die Drucke, Poster, Bilder und Photographien datieren vom frühen 20. Jahrhundert bis heute. Die künstlerische Entwicklung reicht dabei von der bloßen Adaption christlicher Ikonographie bis zur Schöpfung neuer indigener Narrative. Su-Chi Lin untersucht die visuellen Repräsentationen in solchen Inkulturationsprozessen und geht der Frage nach, ob diese Kunstwerke Modelle anbieten für die kontextuelle Illustration des globalen christlichen Glaubens.