| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Power polemics |
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Power polemics.
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| Contents |
Intro; Introduction; 1. Chardin at the Edge of Belief; 2. Pulverised Idols in the Art of Mark Rothko; 3. A Way with Words: Practical Religion in the Art of Colin McCahon; 4. Incarnations of Robert Smithson; 5. He's Not There: James Turrell in the 1960s; Conclusion and a Return to Catholicism; Illustrations; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author Biography; Colophon |
| Summary |
No Idols: The Missing Theology of Art turns away from contemporary cultural theories to face a pervading blindspot in today's art-historical inquiry: religion. Crow pursues a perhaps unpopular notion of Christianity's continued presence in modern abstract art and in the process makes a case for art's own terrain of theology: one that eschews idolatry by means of abstraction. Tracking the original anti-idolatry controversy of the Jansenists, anchored in a humble still life by Chardin, No Idols sets the scene for the development of an art of reflection rather than representation, and divinity without doctrine. Crow's reinstatement of the metaphysical is made through the work of New Zealand artist Colin McCahon and American artists Mark Rothko, Robert Smithson, James Turrell, and Sister Mary Corita Kent. While a tightly selected group of artists, in their collective statute the author explores the proposal that spiritual art, as opposed to a simulacrum of one, is conceivable for our own time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Arts and religion.
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Metaphysics in art.
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Arts -- Themes, motives
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Arts and religion
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Arts -- Themes, motives
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Metaphysics in art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780909952891 |
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0909952892 |
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0909952914 |
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9780909952914 |
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