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Pages: 154
Authors: James Elkins
Categories: Art
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Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that me
On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: James Elkins
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that me
God in the Gallery
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Daniel A. Siedell
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10 - Publisher: Baker Academic

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An art historian develops a theological, philosophical, and historical framework within which to experience and interpret modern and contemporary art that is in
What Painting is
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Pages: 284
Authors: James Elkins
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking
Long Strange Journey
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Long Strange Journey presents the first critical analysis of visual objects and discourses that animate Zen art modernism and its legacies, with particular emph