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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Wessel StokerPublisher: Brill Imprint: Editions Rodopi B.V. Volume: 45 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9789042035447ISBN 10: 9042035447 Pages: 235 Publication Date: 01 January 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Art and Spirituality Introduction What Makes Secular Art Spiritual Art? A Heuristic Model Kandinsky: Art as Spiritual Bread Introduction Expressive Art: The Inner Sound Veiled-Figurative Abstraction Geometric and Biomorphic Abstraction A Spirituality of Inwardness: Radical Immanence Rothko: The Tragedy of Human Existence Introduction Myths as the Expression of the Tragic Colour Fields: Filled or Empty? The Rothko Chapel Paintings A Spirituality of Silence Warhol: A Spiritual Business Artist Introduction The Last Supper: A Preliminary Exploration The Image: Simulacrum or Referential? A Spirituality of Everyday Kiefer: Can Heaven Bear the Weight of History? Introduction The Tear in Reality Transformation and Restoration A Spirituality of Concrete The Spiritual Image Introduction The Spiritual Image in Secular Art Spiritual Insights Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Names List of PaintingsReviewsWhoever wants to descend into the catacombs of the religious aspects of Rothko's work and other artists will find a perfect and knowledgeable travel guide in Stoker's Where Heaven and Earth Meet. - Joost Zwagerman, De Volkskrant Stoker demonstrates how transcendence and spirituality play a role in secular art and provides a nuanced and differentiated outline of that role. - Marcel Barnard, Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift ... finely detailed and erudite chapters on Kandinsky, Rothko, Warhol, and Kiefer. - Anne Marijke Spijkerboer, VolZin Whoever wants to descend into the catacombs of the religious aspects of Rothko's work and other artists will find a perfect and knowledgeable travel guide in Stoker's Where Heaven and Earth Meet. - Joost Zwagerman, De Volkskrant Stoker demonstrates how transcendence and spirituality play a role in secular art and provides a nuanced and differentiated outline of that role. - Marcel Barnard, Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift ... finely detailed and erudite chapters on Kandinsky, Rothko, Warhol, and Kiefer. - Anne Marijke Spijkerboer, VolZin Author InformationWessel Stoker is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics at VU University Amsterdam. He has written various books on topics of philosophy of religion, including Is the Quest for Meaning the Quest for God? (1996) and Is Faith Rational? (2006), and has edited numerous volumes, such as Roman &Religie. Bespiegelingen over godsdienst in Knielen op een bed violen (2009) and Kunst en Religie (2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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