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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
The Great Awakening and the Birth of American Art
Art and a Conflicted Religious Heritage: 1860–1913
From the Turn of the Twentieth Century to the Armory Show: Modernism in America
From the First World War to the Second: Finding an American Voice
MoMA and American Modernism
Abstract Expressionism and the Arrival of American Modernism
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
Color Plates
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
General Index
Scripture Index
Praise for Modern Art and the Life of a Culture
About the Authors
Studies in Theology and the Arts
More Titles from InterVarsity Press
Copyright
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