Our distance from God : studies of the divine and the mundane in western art and music / James D. Herbert.
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TextSeries: Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprintPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.Description: xii, 198 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 27 cmISBN: - 9780520252134 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520252136 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 701/.1 22
- N8248.S77 H47 2008
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Knox | Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre | Chrysalis Seed Collection | 701.1 Her (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 10-0456 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Louis XIV's Versailles -- Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung -- Monet's Orangerie -- Spence's Cathedral & Britten's War requiem -- Wilson's 14 stations.
1. Louis XIV'S Versailles -- 2. Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung -- 3. Monet's Orangerie -- 4. Spence's Cathedral and Britten's War Requiem -- 5. Wilson's 14 Stations.
"In this encounter between reflections on Christian theology and the history of art and music, James D. Herbert explores how specific works of art establish a relation - at times distant, at times proximate, in conflict or in accord - between the divine and the earthbound audiences for whom the art was created. Herbert formulates a compelling new approach to the representation, figuration, and manipulation of "distance" in art and music as he investigates three kinds of remove: physical displacement between objects, the semiotic fissure between representation and reality, and the ethical gap between practice and ideals. His argument unfolds over five case studies and spans four centuries: the architecture and artworks that glorified Louis XIV at Versailles in the seventeenth century, the interaction of libretto and music in Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Claude Monet's enormous and resplendent paintings of water lilies mounted at the Orangerie of Paris in 1927, the inaugural performance in 1962 of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem for the consecration of the new Anglican cathedral at Coventry, and Robert Wilson's recent installation based on the Passion, 14 Stations."--BOOK JACKET.
Knox Chrysalis Seed Collection.
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