Stephen N. Fliegel, A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State State University Press, 2012, 136 pp., £36.50/$42.00…
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Natasha F. H. O’Hear, Contrasting Images of the Book of Revelation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art: A Case Study in Visual Exegesis….
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Kristin Schwain. Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, xi + 172 pp., £22.75/$31.50…
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Editor’s Note: This review is the first in a series of review clusters, a format new to Transpositions. Review clusters will include 2-3 short…
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Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, eds., Genesis: William Blake’s Last Illuminated Work. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2012. 100 pp., £55.00/$80.00 cloth. The purpose of…
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Editor’s Note: As a continuation of Christopher R. Brewer’s recent series engaging the work of Daniel A. Siedell, and, more specifically, as a sort…
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This post is Part I in a series highlighting some insightful documentary films from the past decade on art and artmaking. In Werner Herzog’s…
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The art of Robert Gober represents an immensely important body of work for testing the scope of contemporary art’s interrogation of kitsch. With his…
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Good art opens the mind and emotions. It stretches one’s perspective, questions one’s beliefs, agitates apathy, and invites one to explore the mysterious. It…
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