Featured Artist: Deborah Haynes
Deborah J. Haynes is a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Besides working as an artist in…
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Art and Sustainability
The National Gallery in London recently advertised that it partnered with General Electric to “grow the first living masterpiece.” Outside the museum in Trafalgar…
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The Artist as Rememberer (Part 2)
Part 2 of this post seeks to answer the questions put forth in part 1 in a more general way. I asked earlier: How…
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The Artist as Rememberer (Part 1)
In an interview, Wendell Berry once remarked: “In a truly grounded, locally adapted culture, the artists would be rememberers.”[1] This statement brought up several…
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She was the single artificer of the world In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea, Whatever self it had, became the…
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Displacedness and Home-making
This past weekend, my husband and I moved to a new house in St. Andrews. Seeing our lives boxed up and moved about made…
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Deborah Haynes: Land, Art, and Spirituality
Because my research deals with the relationship of art to theological issues regarding place and space, I come across a lot of artists who…
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Chapter Five: Can art be a religion?
Review of Chapter 5 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from…
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Visual Theology: A Review
Any reader interested in the intersection of art and theology will find this book a helpful and engaging read. And while the reader may be left at times asking for more, it does not disappoint in its ability to raise questions about how the arts are significant to theology, community, and spiritual life. Even if the reader does not agree…
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