| Description |
xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / S. Brent Plate -- Sect. 1. Aisthesis: Perceiving Between the Eye and the Mind -- from "Vision," in A Natural History of the Senses / Diane Ackerman -- from Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing / Richard L. Gregory -- from The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing / James Elkins -- from "Metaphors on Vision" / Stan Brakhage -- Sect. 2. Icon: The Image of Jesus Christ and Christian Theology -- from "Image" / Margaret R. Miles -- from Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meaning / John Drury -- from The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion / Leo Steinberg -- from '"Would Jesus Have Sat for a Portrait?' The Likeness of Christ in the Popular Reception of Sallman's Art" / David Morgan -- Sect. 3. Qalam: Word and Imaged In Islamic Calligraphy -- from Mediation of Ornament / Oleg Grabar -- from Calligraphy and Islamic Culture / Annemarie Schimmel -- from "The Spiritual Message of Islamic Calligraphy" in Islamic Art and Spirituality / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- from Modern Islamic Art / Wijdan Ali -- Sect. 4. Shinjin: The Seeing Body-Mind in the Japanese Zen Garden -- from Buddhism and the Arts of Japan / Richard B. Pilgrim -- from The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy / Yasuo Yuasa -- "The Japanese Garden: Seeing and Cultivating Micro-Macrocosmic Correlativity" / Shigenori Nagatomo and Pamela D. Winfield -- from The Ocean in the Sand / Mark Holborn -- Sect. 5. Darshan: Seeing the Hindu Divine Image in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- from Darshan / Diana L. Eck -- from Lives of Indian Images / Richard H. Davis -- from the prologue to Devi: Goddess of India / John Stratton Hawley -- from "All in the (Raghu) Family" / Philip Lutgendorf -- Sect. 6. Zakhor: Modern Jewish Memory Built into Architecture -- from Jewish Icons / Richard Cohen -- from The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning / James E. Young -- "Holocaust Icons, Holocaust Idols" / Oren Baruch Stier -- "Building Zakhor: The Place of Memory in Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin" / S. Brent Plate |
| Summary |
"Religion, Art, and Visual Culture gathers together the most current scholarship on art, religion, visual culture, and cultural studies. The book approaches the study of world religions through the human, meaning-making activity of seeing. The essays move between specific visual subjects (painting, landscape gardens, calligraphy, architecture, mass media) and the broader theoretical discourses relevant to religion and the wider humanities today. Topics covered include art and perception; the iconicity of Jesus Christ; the relation of word and image in Islam and divine images in India."--pub. desc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art and society.
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Art and religion.
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Religion in art.
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| Author |
Plate, S. Brent, 1966-
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| LC no. |
2001053165 |
| ISBN |
0312240031 |
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0312240295 paperback |
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