[EDITOR’S NOTE: This final instalment of our ten-year anniversary series is published in a new year. We have turned the corner from the past decade and the tumultuous year that was 2020. Looking back and also ahead, current Transpositions editors…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: In this third instalment of our Transpositions’ ten-year anniversary series, ‘Significant Art from the 2010s’, we hear reflections from four different artist-scholars on four visual artworks that have moved, challenged, and inspired them. They range from the immanent-transcendent…
One may be forgiven for questioning the theological value of art festivals; after all, they can be known for their unbridled commerce and questionable aesthetic taste, not to mention chaotic parking. Then again, so can churches. As a vision of…
‘There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.’ [1] With these two provocative little sentences, E.H. Gombrich begins his famed book, The Story of Art. It is a surprising way to begin a relatively comprehensive guide to…
Maria Pia Di Bella and James Elkins, editors, Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture, Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies 4 (London: Routledge, 2013), xiii + 216 pp. incl. index and contributor bios. Hardcover, $160.00 / £95.00…
While a scholarly investigation of art engages the imagination and intellect, a practical interaction with art employs the physical senses. More profoundly, art that is infused with spirituality can prompt the soul and the body to experience art at a…
It would be difficult to read Jackson Pollock’s so-called drip paintings as the product of theological intent. Judging by their titles, which range from Devil to Cathedral to non-descript numbers, not to mention the legion of studies on Pollock’s influences, [1]…
Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness. Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Academic. 2016. 376 pages. $15.25 paperback, £11.39 Kindle. In this compelling collaboration between an artist and…
James McCullough. Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation. Wipf and Stock, 2015. 146pp, B ISBN: 9781625649218. $20. It is a pleasure to be reviewing the first monograph by an author with manifold connections to the Institute for Theology,…