Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Religion, art, and visual culture :

Religion, art, and visual culture : a cross-cultural reader / Religion, art & visual culture edited, and with introductions by S. Brent Plate. - New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2002. - xvi, 240 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction-- S.Brent Plate SECTION 1: THE EYE AND THE MIND Introduction to Section One-- S.Brent Plate From 'Vision'-- D.Ackerman, From Eye and Mind-- R.L.Gregory From 'To See and Not See'-- O.Sacks From 'Metaphors on Vision'-- S.Brakhage SECTION 2: ICON: THE IMAGE OF JESUS CHRIST AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY Introduction to Section Two-- S.Brent Plate From 'Image'-- M.Miles From Painting the Word-- J.Drury From The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion-- L.Steinberg From 'Would Jesus Have Sat for a Portrait? The Likeness of Christ in the Popular Reception of Sallman's Art'-- D.Morgan SECTION 3: QALAM: THE RELATIONSHIP OF WORD AND IMAGE IN ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY Introduction to Section Three-- S.Brent Plate From Mediation of Ornament-- O.Grabar From 'The Spiritual Message of Islamic Calligraphy'-- S.H.Nasr From Calligraphy and Islamic Culture-- A.Schimmel From Modern Islamic Art-- W.Ali SECTION 4: SHINJIN: THE SEEING MIND-BODY IN JAPANESE ZEN GARDENS Introduction to Section Four-- S.Brent Plate From Buddhism and the Arts of Japan-- R.Pilgrim From The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory-- Y.Yasuo From The Ocean in the Sand-- M.Holborn 'The Japanese Zen Garden'-- S.Nagatomo & P.Winfield SECTION 5: DARSHAN: SEEING THE DIVINE IMAGE IN INDIA IN THE MODERN AGE Introduction to Section Five-- S.Brent Plate From Darshan-- D.Eck From the Prologue to Devi: Goddess of India-- J.S.Hawley From 'All in the (Raghu) Family'-- P.Lutgendorf From Lives of Indian Images-- R.Davis SECTION 6: ZAKHOR: JEWISH MEMORY BUILT INTO ARCHITECTURE Introduction to Section Six-- S.Brent Plate From Jewish Icons-- R.Cohen From The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning-- J.Young 'Idolizing/Idealizing the Holocaust Era Boxcar'-- O.Stier 'Building Zakhor: Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin'-- S.Brent Plate.

0312240295 0312240031 (cased)

2001-53165

GB A2-28404


Art and religion.
Religion in art.

N72.R4 / R45 2002

704.948