Art and mysticism : interfaces in the Medieval and modern periods / edited by Helen Appleton and Louise Nelstrop.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Appleton, Helen, editor.

Nelstrop, Louise, editor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Contemporary theological explorations in Christian mysticism

Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and art.

History.

Mysticism in art.

Mysticism and art.

Mysticism and art--History.

Mysticism in art--History.

Christianity and art--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology. The book features contributions from an international panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The first section offers theoretical and philosophical considerations of mystical aesthetics and the interplay between mysticism and art. The final three sections investigate this interplay between the arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The purpose of the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore an important and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to scholars of theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who study literature, the arts and art history.

Contents:

Introduction: Art, articulation and incarnation : mystical theology and seeing the invisible / Helen Appleton and Louise Nelstrop

1. Beneath the surface : whose phenomenology? which art? / Kate Kirkpatrick

2. Art and inarticulacy / Bill Prosser

3. Art, contemplation and intellectus : Aquinas and Gadamer in conversation / Rik Van Nieuwenhove

4. Jan van Eyck and the active mysticism of the Devotio Modema / Inigo Bocken

5. Art and mysticism as horticulture : late medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries in an interdisciplinary perspective / Barbara Baert

6. Medieval pop : Warhol's Byzantine iconography / Jewell Homad Johnson

7. An artist's notes on the art and the articulation of the mystical moment / Sheila Gallagher

8. The Desert of religion : a voice and images in the wilderness / Anne Mouron

9. 'Bon Jhesu, sainctefie ces deux, conjoins ensamble par sacrement de mariage' : le rapport entre le texte et l'image dans le Livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage et du réconfort des dames mariees de Philippe de Mézières / Anna Loba

10. 'It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there' / Bernard McGinn

11. Visions of the otherworld : the accounts of Fursey and Dryhthelm in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and the Homilies of Ælfric / Roberta Bassi

12. The gaze of divine sorrow : envisioning mystical union with Diirer, Cusa and the Theologia Germanica / Simon D. Podmore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781138718388

1138718386

OCLC:

1032289275

Publisher Number:

99980827018