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Re-Digging Art's Foundations: Essays on Gospel and Art

by David Thistlethwaite
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798385218141
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers
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  • Pages: 190
  • Original Price: USD 27.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 273 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Christian Theology / Apologetics, Christian Living / Inspirational, and Christian Living / Spiritual Growth

The experience of looking at contemporary art can be baffling, even alienating. But good art, Thistlethwaite asserts, makes you feel more human, not less, and certainly does not undermine your ability to make judgments. Too often we have been told "it's all so subjective," and this has permitted purveyors of ugliness and the second-rate to occupy the public square without hindrance. But beauty, goodness, and truth, far from being the ragged tatters of a civilization in its death-throes, are in reality perfectly objective and thrillingly real. Everything depends on what sort of world we are living in, whether a good God's good creation, though marred, or one that is, according to expert opinion, pointless and meaningless. The twelve essays here show how a central core of ideas works out when different questions are asked, and in one longer, narrative essay, how they were arrived at. The foundations that need re-digging for art are discovered in common sense, the Bible, and a little theology. One aim of the book is to bridge the gap between Bible and art, and by so doing, to liberate art-viewers; and another is to free art makers into truthful and powerful real-world connections.

Thistlethwaite, David: - David Thistlethwaite read history of art at Cambridge, and after a few years at a prestigious London art dealer, returned to Cambridge to research English art theory. Following another year in the art trade, he worked for seven years for UCCF (the Christian Unions) as Professional Groups Secretary, before retraining in figurative art in London and Florence. He is the author of The Art of God and the Religions of Art (1998).

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