Seeing: When Art and Faith Intersect

by Douglas G. Campbell

Overview

Seeing consists of twenty brief essays about the role of contemporary artists of faith, their audience, and Christianity. These essays bring to discussion topics from postmodernism, authenticity and iconoclasm to individualism, beauty, and truth. Each essay focuses on issues that relate to how artists of faith approach their thinking about art, how viewers can enhance their experience of artworks and the relationship between Postmodernism and Christianity. Campbell explores, within the current Postmodernist environment, how art and Christianity can be discussed in the present tense and how Art by Contemporary Christians is now a topic for serious discussion that cannot be dismissed as merely an oxymoron. These essays bring to discussion issues that have been ignored by mainstream art publications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761822349
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/11/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Douglas G. Campbell is Professor of Art and Director of the Donald J. Lindgren Gallery, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Illustrations
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Dance of Darkness and Light: An Introduction
Chapter 4 Postmodernism
Chapter 5 Truth
Chapter 6 Art
Chapter 7 Imagination
Chapter 8 Seeing
Chapter 9 Iconoclasm
Chapter 10 Artists
Chapter 11 Beauty
Chapter 12 Images
Chapter 13 Demons
Chapter 14 Quality
Chapter 15 Spirit
Chapter 16 Words
Chapter 17 Originality
Chapter 18 Theory
Chapter 19 Stewardship
Chapter 20 Individualism
Chapter 21 Education
Chapter 22 Authenticity
Chapter 23 Being
Chapter 24 Afterward: Homo Silicon
Chapter 25 Bibliography
Chapter 26 Index