Art, Truth and Time
Luath Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-912147-53-3 (ISBN)
Art, Truth, and Time is a book which endeavours to show that artistic creation depends as much upon the body, as it does the soul, and the soul’s intelligent use of the body’s way of understanding. When there occurs a complete disjunction between the two, as occurs in much of contemporary art, art is stripped of its inherent beauty, its wholeness. In this book the author considers the nature of art from its earliest manifestations to the present day, endeavouring to show that its truth transcends time and place through the unity of soul and body and man’s awareness of this unity, not a barren unity, but a unity which is profoundly creative.
Sister Anselma Scollard OSB spent her childhood and youth in California, USA. She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Warwick. Her studies are in the fields of philosophy and art, more specifically aesthetics and sculpture. She has spent a good deal of time pursuing her studies in art through extensive travels throughout Europe. Although particularly interested in the Quarto Centro period of Italian art and the medieval period of French art, her great interest in modern and contemporary art has taken her to Paris, Amsterdam and London. She did not begin to publish her written work until she joined St. Cecilia’s Abbey on the Isle of Wight. Her monastery is a member of the Solesmes Congregation. She is a Benedictine, enclosed, contemplative nun. She has further pursued her work in sculpture in the production of furniture and the creation of gardens within the monastery, incorporating the use of shapes and colours inherent in plants in a monastic setting.
Acknowledgements 9
Foreword 11
Preface 13
PART ONE – Art and Truth
The Experience of Truth 16
Art, Truth and Time 18
PART TWO – Art and Humankind
Body and Soul: Some Reflections on Art and Religion 24
The Sense of Touch Versus Conceptual Art 28
Why Artists Need Hands and the Process of Individuation 35
PART THREE – Criticism
Spontaneity and Objectivity 41
Relativism: Art Without Object 46
Boredom and ‘The Art of Change’ 51
Technology and Technique Versus Art 56
The Importance of the Subjective: the True Meaning of Originality 63
PART FOUR – Art and Death
Two Contrasting Images of Death: or Horizontal and Vertical Images of Death 70
Art and Death: the Endless Search, the Enduring Present 77
PART FIVE – Architecture
To Innovate with Tradition: the Aesthetic Spirituality of Dom Paul Bellot, Architect and Monk 88
Visual Silence in Monastic Architecture: Cistercian Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries 95
APPENDIX 101
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.10.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 205 mm |
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-912147-53-X / 191214753X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-912147-53-3 / 9781912147533 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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