UID:
almahu_9949865742502882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781351765145
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1351765140
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9781315195803
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1315195801
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9781315195803
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9781351765152
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9781351765138
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1351765132
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1351765159
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9781351765152
Series Statement:
Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism
Content:
From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology. The book features contributions from an international panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The first section offers theoretical and philosophical considerations of mystical aesthetics and the interplay between mysticism and art. The final three sections investigate this interplay between the arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The purpose of the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore an important and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to scholars of theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who study literature, the arts and art history.
Note:
Chapter Introduction: Art, articulation and Incarnation: Mystical theology and seeing the invisible /
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part PART I Art, aesthetics and mysticism in theory and practice --
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chapter 1 Beneath the surface: Whose phenomenology? Which art? /
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chapter 2 Art and inarticulacy /
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chapter 3 Art, contemplation and intellectus: Aquinas and Gadamer in conversation /
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part PART II Art, mysticism and the everyday --
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chapter 4 Jan van Eyck and the active mysticism of the Devotio Moderna /
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chapter 5 Art and mysticism as horticulture: Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries in an interdisciplinary perspective /
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chapter 6 Medieval Pop: Warhol's Byzantine iconography /
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part PART III M etaphor, making and transcendence --
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chapter 7 An artist's notes on the art and the articulation of the mystical moment /
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chapter 8 The Desert of Religion: A voice and images in the wilderness /
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chapter 9 'Bon Jhesu, sainctefie ces deux, conjoins ensamble par sacrement de mariage': Le rapport entre le texte et l'image dans le Livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage et du réconfort des dames mariees de Philippe de Mézières /
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part PART IV Into the darkness --
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chapter 10 'It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there' /
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chapter 11 Visions of the otherworld: The accounts of Fursey and Dryhthelm in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and the Homilies of Ælfric /
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chapter 12 The gaze of divine sorrow: Envisioning mystical union with Dürer, Cusa and the Theologia Germanica /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Art and mysticism. New York : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781138718388
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.4324/9781315195803
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315195803
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315195803
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