Grant Pooke. Contemporary British Art: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2011, 287 pp., £26.99 paper. In a dense and informative narration of British contemporary art since the 1980s, Grant Pooke, Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, University…
Editor’s Note: This is the first post in our new Artists in Residence series, a series intended to draw working artists like Bruce Herman, Alfonse Borysewicz and Makoto Fujimura into the theology/arts conversation here on Transpositions. In his book Real…
Christianity has always been at the crossroads of various cultures. At a time in history when globalization and multiculturalism are quickly becoming the norm, it can be helpful for Christians to remind ourselves that this situation is not entirely new.…
“I need—no, I have the right—to be unlimited.” This curious claim comes from a recent Sprint commercial for the iPhone 5. The title: “I am unlimited: Picture Perfect.”[1] The commercial brilliantly captures a very noticeable movement with the rise of…
Makoto Fujimura, Golden Sea. New York: Dillon Gallery Press, 2013, 143 pp., $100.00, cloth (with DVD). This is a lovely book. After receiving it, I walked down the path that runs behind our home here in St Andrews to the East Sands. It…
In “The Integrity of Using Art, Part 1” I suggested that when using art, affirming the integrity of the work is immensely important. Then, in “The Integrity of Using Art, Part 2,” I went on to argue not only that we…
The California Condors – For NVH The way of dodos was their way, improbable birds Fated to fall from Darwin’s leaf-stripped tree. But man, it turned out, had wings within him: With care he captured each great vulture, made A…
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him…
Trinity Sunday In the Beginning, not in time or space, But in the quick before both space and time, In Life, in Love, in co-inherent Grace, In three in one and one in three, in rhyme, In music, in the…