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Bridge to Wonder : Art as a Gospel of Beauty / Cecilia González-Andrieu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- González-Andrieu, Cecilia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and the arts.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- It is often difficult to describe beauty or even justify attempts to experience something beautiful.Yet if artists--whether painters or poets, actors or musicians, architects or sculptors--teach us anything, it is that the pursuit of beauty is a common feature among all humanity.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- This book is not about art
- In search of wonder
- Seeing (as) salvation, the hope of art and religion
- Beautiful differences
- Beyond boundaries and unknowable otherness
- The impossible definition
- Beauty in turmoil
- The bridge to wonder is ours to build
- Glimpses and destellos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60258-352-8
- OCLC:
- 868219436
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