No idols : the missing theology of art /

No idols : the missing theology of art /

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Author / Creator:Crow, Thomas E., 1948- author.
Imprint:University Of Sydney, N.S.W. : Power Publications, 2017.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Power polemics
Power polemics.
Subject:
Arts and religion.
Metaphysics in art.
Arts -- Themes, motives.
Arts and religion.
Arts -- Themes, motives.
Metaphysics in art.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12350083
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ISBN:9780909952891
0909952892
0909952914
9780909952914
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Other form:Print version: Crow, Thomas E., 1948- No idols. University Of Sydney, N.S.W. : Power Publications, 2017 090995299X 9780909952990

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