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Author(s): Sheona Beaumont (editor), Madeleine Emerald Thiele (editor)
ISBN(s): 9780367443214, 036744321X
Edition: 1
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Year: 2021
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ISBN 10: 036744321X 
ISBN 13: 9780367443214
Author: Sheona Beaumont, Madeleine Emerald Thiele

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity. Modern intellectual enquiry has often been reluctant to engage theology as an enriching or useful form of visual analysis, but critics are increasingly revisiting religious narratives and Christian thought in pursuit of understanding our present-day visual culture. In this book an international group of contributors demonstrate how theology is often implicit within artworks and how, regardless of a viewer’s personal faith, it can become implicit in a viewer’s visual encounter. Their observations include deliberate juxtaposition of Christian symbols, imaginative play with theologies, the validation of non-confessional or secular public engagement, and inversions of biblical interpretation. Case studies such as an interactive Easter, glow-sticks as sacrament, and visualisation of the Bible’s polyphonic voices enrich this discussion. Together, they call for a greater interpretative generosity and more nuance around theology’s cultural contexts in the modern era. By engaging with theology, culture, and the visual art, this collection offers a fresh lens through which to see the interaction of religion and art. As such, it will be of great use to those working in Religion and the Arts, Visual Art, Material Religion, Theology, Aesthetics, and Cultural Studies.

Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts Theology Aesthetics and Practice 1st Table of contents:

Part 1: Re-working the Bible beyond symbolic expression

1. ‘The hearing ear and the seeing eye’: Transformative listening to the biblical image

  • The Bible as a site of sound: varieties of acoustic types

  • Theology, sound, and vision: toward an integrated perspective

  • Listening to visual art with biblical subject matter: sonic allusion

  • Sonic similes in Scripture

  • ‘The voice of the Lord’: Audible manifestations of God

  • Silence and its significance

  • Inner visualization and audition

  • Sonifying the Bible: sound-art practice perspective

  • Notes & Bibliography

2. Photography as the Bible’s new illumination

  • Victorian contexts: Francis Frith’s Holy Bible, 1861

  • Present-day contexts: Visionaire’s ‘Bible’, 1999

  • Praxis and author’s Scriptorium, 2018

  • Notes & Bibliography

3. The Visual Commentary on Scripture: Principles and possibilities

  • What is the Visual Commentary on Scripture (VCS)?

  • Exhibition as commentary

  • VCS as conversation

  • Theological warrants

  • Conclusion

  • Notes & Bibliography

4. The Virgin and the visual artist as theologian: Marian images by David Jones

  • Analysis of Guenever and Aphrodite in Aulis

  • Tradition and innovation in Marianism

  • Mary in incarnational theology

  • Mary’s representative function

  • Marian features in Jones’ work

  • Conclusion: David Jones’ indirect approach to Mary

  • Notes & Bibliography

  • Praxis I: LAVANT section

  • References

Part 2: Re-shaping institutional and historical cross-currents

5. ‘A sacred art of the state’: Public commissions for French churches, abbeys, and cathedrals

  • Ministry of Culture and Communication

  • Case studies: Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte, Nevers; Saint-Prim, Isère

  • Contemporary non-religious thought and Christian tradition

  • Notes & Bibliography

6. The Chapel at Royal Holloway: Visual theology and women’s education

  • External carvings

  • Sculpture in porch and lintel

  • Bas-reliefs in nave

  • Ceiling decoration

  • Notes & Bibliography

7. The ‘sacred pastoral’ in Bishop William Giles’ work

  • Biographical background

  • Samuel Palmer and the Ancients influence

  • Sacred pastoral aesthetic

  • Sacred pastoral in Giles’ photographs

  • Conclusion

  • Notes & Bibliography

  • Praxis II: HS section

  • References

Part 3: Re-discovering church space in liturgy, performance, and installation

8. Bin bag visions: Theological horizons in Maciej Urbanek’s HS

  • The Spirit over waters

  • Light shining in darkness

  • Ambiguity

  • Notes & Bibliography

9. Public liturgical theology through community and public art

  • Introduction to “Beyond” project

  • Beyond as public theology

  • Case studies:

    1. ‘Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem’ (Gaza and Vanity Fair)

    2. Jesus and Final Crisis: ultimate crossover

    3. ‘God in the hut’ and the new sacrament of ‘breaking light’

  • Beyond as liturgical public theology

  • Conclusion

  • Notes & Bibliography

10. Stations of the Cross and Stations of the Resurrection: Interdisciplinary art practice and visual theology

  • Interdisciplinary context

  • Integrative strategies: Juxtaposition, Simultaneity, Parataxis

  • Held difference and aesthetic register

  • Postscript

  • Notes & Bibliography

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