The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art [electronic resource] : Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present /
Spretnak, C.author.
This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created celebrated works of art. This magisterial overview insightfully reveals the centrality of an often denied and misunderstood element in the cultural history of modern art.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Great Underground River That Flows Through Modern Art; 1 The Nineteenth Century: Expressing Christian Themes in a Newly Secular World; Blake; The German Romantic Painters; The Nazarenes; The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; The Hudson River School; Impressionism; Post-Impressionism; The Synthetists of Pont-Aven; The Nabis; Gaudí and Jujol; 2 Mid-1880s to 1918: The Quest to Save Civilization from "Materialism" Through a New Art Informed by Esoteric Spirituality; Influences; Symbolist Painting
The End of the Fin de Siècle Period and the Dawn of the Twentieth CenturyExpressionism; Cubism; Simultaneity, Futurist Dynamism, Orphism, and Orphic Cubism; The Blue Rider; Non-Objective Painting: Picturing the Immaterial Realm; 3 1919 - 1939: The Reaction against Prewar Esoteric Spirituality; Dada; Surrealism; Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity); The Bauhaus; Purism; Postwar Religious Figurative Artists; The Quiet Survival of Spiritual Abstract Art; Mystical Landscape Painting in North America; 4 1945 to the Present: Allusive Spirituality; Abstract Expressionism; Abstract Representation
Mixed MediaAbstract Sculpture; Allusively Spiritual Architecture; 5 1945 to the Present: Spirituality of Immanence; Nature as a Sacral Presence; The Body as Sacral Presence; The Sacral Body-in-Nature; Making Indigenous Influences Central; Architecture in Communion with Nature; 6 1945 to the Present: Rocked in the Bosom of Abraham; Fr. Couturier's Commissions; The Formative Catholic Gesamtkunstwerk; Expressions of Judaism, Christianity,and Islam; Afterword: When Form Follows Spirit; Appendix: Making the Case; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index
Includes index.
This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created celebrated works of art. This magisterial overview insightfully reveals the centrality of an often denied and misunderstood element in the cultural history of modern art.
Religion
Arts.
Religion and sociology.
Arts.
Spirituality.
History of Religion.
Arts.
Religion and Society.
Fine Arts.
Spirituality.