The Pittenweem Arts Festival: An Artist’s Reflection on Art, Church, and Place
One may be forgiven for questioning the theological value of art festivals; after all, they can be known for their unbridled commerce and questionable…
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Encountering an Icon: Thomas Eakins’ ‘The Crucifixion’
‘There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.’ [1] With these two provocative little sentences, E.H. Gombrich begins his famed…
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Review: Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
Maria Pia Di Bella and James Elkins, editors, Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture, Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies 4…
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ITIA Art Exhibition, ‘The World “behind” and “in front of” the Work’
While a scholarly investigation of art engages the imagination and intellect, a practical interaction with art employs the physical senses. More profoundly, art that…
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God’s Back: Jackson Pollock and the Beatific Vision
It would be difficult to read Jackson Pollock’s so-called drip paintings as the product of theological intent. Judging by their titles, which range from…
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Review: Modern Art and the Life of a Culture
Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness. Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP…
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Review: Sense and Spirituality
James McCullough. Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation. Wipf and Stock, 2015. 146pp, B/W. ISBN: 9781625649218. $20. It is a pleasure to…
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