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A broken beauty / edited by Theodore Prescott.

Contributor(s):

Prescott, Theodore L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, MI : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005.Description: xi, 135 p. ; 31 cmISBN:

0802828183 (alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

104.9/42/0904 22

LOC classification:

N7570 .B76 2005

Contents:

Foreword / Bruce Herman -- 1. The bodies before us / Theodore L. Prescott -- 2. Broken beauty, shattered heart / Timothy Verdon -- 3. A comic vision? : northern renaissance art and the human figure / Lisa J. DeBoer -- 4. Beauty lost, beauty found : one hundred years of attitudes / Gordon Fuglie -- 5. A broken beauty and its artists / Gordon Fuglie.

The bodies before us / Theodore L. Prescott -- Broken beauty, shattered heart / Timothy Verdon -- A comic vision? : Northern Renaissance art and the human figure / Lisa J. DeBoer -- Beauty lost, beauty found : one hundred years of attitudes / Gordon Fuglie -- A broken beauty and its artists / Gordon Fuglie.

Review: "A Broken Beauty examines recent ideas about beauty and the human image in light of the Western Classical and Christian traditions of the human figure. The book's five essays trace the historical fusion of Classical and Christian ideas about beauty, as well as their rejection by much modern art, provocatively suggesting that the difficulties encountered by the beautiful in modernity may be related to a loss of faith." "This volume culminates in a look at fifteen postmodern North American artists whose haunting pieces unite brokenness and beauty in a way that is uncommon within contemporary art. These artists, like the book's essayists, find significance in beauty that is cultivated amidst the perennial human struggle for goodness, meaning, and dignity."--BOOK JACKET.

List(s) this item appears in: Print Holdings for "Christian Theology and the Arts," Uni of Otago: PAST322/MINS414

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Knox	Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre	Chrysalis Seed Collection	701.18 Bro (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		10-0776
Knox	Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre	Main	PYP Bro (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Broken Beauty examines recent ideas about beauty and the human image in light of the Western Classical and Christian traditions of the human figure. The book's five essays trace the historical fusion of Classical and Christian ideas about beauty, as well as their rejection by much modern art, provocatively suggesting that the difficulties encountered by the beautiful in modernity may be related to a loss of faith." "This volume culminates in a look at fifteen postmodern North American artists whose haunting pieces unite brokenness and beauty in a way that is uncommon within contemporary art. These artists, like the book's essayists, find significance in beauty that is cultivated amidst the perennial human struggle for goodness, meaning, and dignity."--BOOK JACKET.

Knox Chrysalis Seed collection.

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