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Modern Art and the Life of a Culture
The Religious Impulses of Modernism
by Jonathan A. Anderson; William A. Dyrness
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Pub Date
Jun 27 2016
| Archive Date
Jul 15 2016
Description
An artist and theologian rethink Hans Rookmaaker's Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, unearthing the deeply religious concerns underwriting modern art.
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?
In 1970, Dutch art historian and theologian Hans Rookmaaker offered his answers to these questions in his groundbreaking work, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture.
This volume—coauthored by an artist and a theologian—responds to Rookmaaker's declinist narrative of modernist art and offers its own answers to these questions, arguing that there were
actually strong religious impulses that positively shaped modern visual
art.
The authors contend that theological engagement and inquiry can be perceived across French, British, German, Dutch, Russian and North American modern art and through particular works by artists such as Gauguin, Picasso, David Jones, Caspar David Friedrich, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Warhol and many others.
An artist and theologian rethink Hans Rookmaaker's Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, unearthing the deeply religious concerns underwriting modern art. For many Christians, engaging with modern...
Description
An artist and theologian rethink Hans Rookmaaker's Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, unearthing the deeply religious concerns underwriting modern art.
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?
In 1970, Dutch art historian and theologian Hans Rookmaaker offered his answers to these questions in his groundbreaking work, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture.
This volume—coauthored by an artist and a theologian—responds to Rookmaaker's declinist narrative of modernist art and offers its own answers to these questions, arguing that there were
actually strong religious impulses that positively shaped modern visual
art.
The authors contend that theological engagement and inquiry can be perceived across French, British, German, Dutch, Russian and North American modern art and through particular works by artists such as Gauguin, Picasso, David Jones, Caspar David Friedrich, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Warhol and many others.
Advance Praise
"This is a book we have needed for a long time. The standard story of modern art, told by religious and non-religious people alike, is that it is the art of secularism and pervaded by nihilism. That was the story told by Hans Rookmaaker more than forty years ago in the book that became enormously influential among evangelicals, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture.
Anderson and Dyrness tell a very different story. They show that modern art has been pervaded by religious concerns and theological issues. What they have dug up is truly amazing; the book is an eye-opener."
—Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University, senior research fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia
"This is a book we have needed for a long time. The standard story of modern art, told by religious and non-religious people alike, is that it is the art of secularism and pervaded by nihilism. That...
Advance Praise
"This is a book we have needed for a long time. The standard story of modern art, told by religious and non-religious people alike, is that it is the art of secularism and pervaded by nihilism. That was the story told by Hans Rookmaaker more than forty years ago in the book that became enormously influential among evangelicals, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture.
Anderson and Dyrness tell a very different story. They show that modern art has been pervaded by religious concerns and theological issues. What they have dug up is truly amazing; the book is an eye-opener."
—Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University, senior research fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9780830851355 |
| PRICE |
$24.00 (USD)
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9780830851355 |
| PRICE |
$24.00 (USD)
|
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