Art as spiritual perception
Subtitle: essays in honor of E. John Walford
By: edited by James Romaine ; foreword by Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wheaton, Illinois
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433531798
Subjects: Religious life; Spirituality in art; Artists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Mentoring eyes: Hans Rookmaaker and John Walford / Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker; title: Introduction: You will see greater things than these: John Walford's content-oriented method of art history / James Romaine; title: Neofitus, he went to God: the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus / Linda Møskeland Fuchs; title: Gothic architecture and "the pure and naked seeing of divine reality": Chartres Cathedral / Rachel Hostetter Smith; title: Heaven come to earth: the Limbourg Brothers' January (from the Très Riches Heures) / Matthew Vanderpoel; title: Academia's "religious turn:" the Brancacci Chapel / Matthew Milliner; title: The shape of place: Joachim Patinir's Landscape with Saint Jerome / Henry Luttikhuizen; title: The perception of spirituality: Hans Holbein's The French Ambassadors / William Dyrness; title: A localized providence: Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Hunters in the Snow / Rachel-Anne Johnson; title: Space, symbol, and spirit: Pieter Saenredam's Interior of the Church of St. Odulphus at Assendelft / Jan Laurens Siesling; title: Categories for art historical methodology: Antoine Watteau's The Dance (Les Fetes venitiennes) / Calvin Seerveld; title: Departing light: Caspar David Friedrich's Tetschen Altar (Cross in the Mountains) / Kaia Magnusen; title: Remember thy Creator: John Constable's Dedham Vale / Anne Roberts; title: What the halo symbolized: Vincent van Gogh's Sower with Setting Sun / James Romaine; title: Evolving a "better" world: Piet Mondrian's Flowering Apple Tree / Graham Birtwistle; title: Spiritually charged visual strategy: Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm / Linda Stratford; title: The liberating myth: Joseph Beuys' I Like America and America Likes Me / James Watkins; title: A portrait of E. John Walford / Joel Sheesley.