Art & Design - Art & Religion

An inspiring resource to help you plan with confidence for arts events in your church and community. With real-life case studies.

"The world of art," says Professor Dillenberger, "is more aware of the role of religion in the arts than the world of religion is of art." Thus it is time for the church to resume "its historic association with the visual arts, albiet in analogous rather than repristinating ways." This edition is out of print, second-hand copies may be available.

The authors invite us to accompany them in walking around and imaginary gallery which exhibits the work of six artists - Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall, Stanley Spencer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence and Vincent Van Gogh. There hope is that, through looking carefully at teh work of these artists, readers will find fresh resources to enhance their own experience, both as viewers in an art gallery and as voyagers on a journey of faith.

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Record-setting ticket sales, heated controversy, sold-out viewings for church groups, and feuding critics. The Passion of the Christ is still going strong. Re-Viewing the Passion is the first collection that takes Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ as a focal point. Just in time for the DVD release, Re-Viewing the Passion will help all of us make sense of this blockbuster movie by offering a variety of perspectives on its significance. Thirteen contributors in diverse fields - biblical studies, Jewish studies, media studies, ar... read more

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Celluloid Saints looks at fundamental issues in the lives of saints and explores them in ways that are complex and nuanced, yet accessible. Topics such as martyrdom, miracles, evangelism, asceticism, saints in the Holocaust, and saintly mental illness have found diverse treatments in film. This book examines that diversity and explains some of the reasons for it. The book is written with two goals in mind. The first is to give film viewers some background and context for evaluating what they see on screen. By and large, Hollywoo... read more

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Out of Print edition. Second hand copies may be available.

Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture...films can provide us with ways to view the world and values to confront it.

Explores the ways in which the medieval debate about the functions and limits iof images influence the production of sacred art. Offering a new interpretation of Christian images as mediators between the human and the sacred, Kessler considers how the creators of imahes in Byzantium and the Latin west were able to situate art at the boundary between physical and spiritual worlds.

If you're a contemporary artist using biblical themes, you must be either offensively radical or sentimentally traditional, right? Well, not exactly, according to "The Next Generation. Featuring the works of forty-four North American artists in media ranging from painting and sculpture to photography and mixed-media collage, this unique volume illustrates the creative breadth of present-day art inspired by the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Art historian Wayne Roosa interprets the pieces displayed, unveiling the complex creative pr... read more

While interest in the relationship between theology and the visual arts is on the rise, there are very few resources for students and teachers, let alone a comprehensive text on the subject. This book fills that lacuna by providing an anthology of readings on theological aesthetics drawn from the first to the twenty-first century. This sourcebook brings together original texts that are most relevant and timely to scholars today. Editor Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen has taken a careful, inclusive approach to the book, including articles an... read more

: In this groundbreaking work, Brown shows how aesthetics, no less than ethics, can play a central role in the study of religion and in the practice of theology. "An important book, wide ranging, often very witty . . . showing an impressive grasp of the current state of aesthetics and possible new directions".--Nick McAdoo, British Journal of Aesthetics.Many modes of religious expression and experience have a markedly aesthetic component, even though aesthetic delight itself often appears to be free of moral or religious interests.... read more

In this beautifully written book, Drury, an Anglican priest and theologian, looks at religious paintings through the ages and presents them in a fresh way--as works filled with passion, stories, and meaning. The author brings his knowledge and experience as both priest and biblical scholar to Christian paintings and presents them to us afresh. He shows how the images in works by artists from Duccio to Velazquez have a universal quality that fills them with passion, stories, and meaning, not only for audiences of the past but also f... read more

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"The Book of Kells" is the richest and most copiously illustrated book in the Celto-Saxon style that still survives. However, despite its rarity and fame, there is little that is known about it. Reproducing over sixty of the wonderful images from the book itself, this guide describes the hidden meanings behind the illustrations and opens our eyes to the history behind them. Picking out the most interesting, beautiful and unique images from the 339 vellum leaves that comprise the book as a whole, it gives an illuminating insight int... read more

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This beautiful book traces the key events of Jesus's life and the main tenets of his teaching, as revealed in the New Testament and foreshadowed in the Old. Illustrated with powerful images drawn from the collections of the British Museum.

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