What is it about?
10 essays by artists, academics, church leaders, and curators that grapple with what the visual arts are doing with Christian traditions, especially through modern eyes. What kind of secular uncertainties are there? What kinds of critical suspicions? And also what kind of sincere creative expressions, believing or unbelieving? The subjects include an audio Bible, visualised commentaries on Scripture, French and English cathedral/church commissions, and Welsh & Polish artistic visions.
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Why is it important?
Religious content is increasingly mediatised in the twenty-first century, and this book identifies ways to locate and integrate the ideas of those working with traditional Christian meanings. Interpretation and imagination are key parts of the story. There are also 2 single-artwork photo-essays with short texts by the artists which highlight the place for their direct voices too.
Perspectives
I co-edited this book, and it emerged from a conference in Chichester, UK, in 2018. The conference gave form and spirit to ideas through what was a genuinely cross-disciplinary, international, platform. It is the voices of those who work both inside and outside academia, those who practice in the arts and those who curate them, and those looking critically at religious faith and those living within it.
Dr Sheona Beaumont
King's College London
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This page is a summary of: Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts, May 2021, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003008965.
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