[Studies in Theology and the Arts 01] • Modern Art and the Life of a Culture by Anderson, Jonathan A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Epigraph Contents Preface PART 1: Critical Context

1 Introduction: Religion and the Discourse of Modernism

Modernity and Secularity Rereading Modernism Retheologizing Modernism Critical Pressures

2 H. R. Rookmaaker, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture

Art and Worldview An Age of Crisis A Declinist Art History Problems Discerning the Spirits The Question of Norms Rethinking Modernism (With and Without Rookmaaker)

PART 2: Geographies, Histories and Encounters

3 France, Britain and the Sacramental Image

Courbet and the Impressionists Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of a Modern Sacred Art Van Gogh’s Immanent Spirituality The Faith of Gauguin The Catholic Revival and a New Sacred Art Georges Rouault and Jacques Maritain Cézanne and Picasso Modern Art in Britain: The Continuing Influence of French Sacramentality

4 Germany, Holland and Northern Romantic Theology

Caspar David Friedrich: Shore-Sermons Visual Theology in a Protestant Frame Vincent van Gogh: Inhabiting the Infinite Piet Mondrian: Figuring the Immutable Vasily Kandinsky and Modernist Apocalyptic Painting

5 Russian Icons, Dada Liturgies and Rumors of Nihilism

Natalia Goncharova and the Modernist Icon Kazimir Malevich: God Is Not Cast Down Hugo Ball and the Theology of Zurich Dada

6 North America and the Expressive Image

7 North America in the Age of Mass Media

Allan Kaprow and John Cage: The Art of Living Robert Rauschenberg: The Receptor Surface Andy Warhol: Postmodern Vanitas Painting

Epilogue Afterword: So What? by Daniel A. Siedell Bibliography Illustrations

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Notes

Preface 1 Introduction: Religion and the Discourse of Modernism 2 H. R. Rookmaaker, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture 3 France, Britain and the Sacramental Image 4 Germany, Holland and Northern Romantic Theology 5 Russian Icons, Dada Liturgies and Rumors of Nihilism 6 North America and the Expressive Image 7 North America in the Age of Mass Media Epilogue Afterword: So What? by Daniel A. Siedell

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