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The Intimacy of Embodiment & the Art of Portrayal
Posted on 04/04/2012 | 2 CommentsIn his appendix “The Ethos of the Body in Art and Media,” John Paul II begins by saying, in painting or sculpture, man/body always remains a model that is subjected to a specific reworking by the artist. In film and... -
Embodying Art: Renewing Religion?
Posted on 03/04/2012 | 53 CommentsEverything we experience has to be embodied. Or, better, every experience we have can only be perceived, received, experienced by a sentient, embodied individual. That doesn’t mean to say that everything which could be experienced is experienced. Trees falling in... -
Review: Resonant Witness
Posted on 30/03/2012 | No CommentsJeremy S. Begbie & Steven R. Guthrie (eds), Resonant Witness: Conversations Between Music and Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011). The aim of this roughly 500-page-long anthology is to “demonstrate the fruitfulness of theology for music, and the fruitfulness of music for... -
Encountering God Through Art: Some Issues
Posted on 26/03/2012 | 53 CommentsOften on this blog, we have talked about ways in which the arts might help us encounter God. In this, my last regular post on Transpositions, I thought I might summarize some of these central points, both as a matter... -
Featured Artist: Wayne Adams
Posted on 23/03/2012 | 3 CommentsWayne Adams is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Calvin College (1996), and then an MFA from Washington University in St Louis (2000). In 2009-10, Adams was awarded an International Arts Movement... -
A Bunch of Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Revelation
Posted on 21/03/2012 | 5 Comments‘That’s nothing but a bunch of rhetoric!’ These words are often spoken dismissively after political stump speeches by those who deem them insincere at best, deceptive at worst. But how often are they uttered after a sermon? People may not... -
To sit in its shadow: Church, Art, and Layers of Meaning
Posted on 19/03/2012 | 1 CommentTo the left of the altar in Old Saint Pauls Episcopal Church (Edinburgh) sits a memorial chapel. In that chapel is perhaps one of the most striking recent pieces of church art in Scotland, Still by Alison Watt. Watt is...
