Review: Translating Truth
Aden Kumler, Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011). 290…
A Reflection on the Art in the Church Workshop
As the Art in the Church workshop concludes, I want to consider two recurring themes that emerged over the three weeks, providing a short…
Art in the Church: An interview with commission4mission
Editor’s Note: commission4mission is an arts organisation based in the United Kingdom. For the Art in the Church Workshop, Transpositions interviewed its Secretary, Jonathan…
Visual Art in Corporate Worship: An Interview with Plasso Design
Editor’s Note: Plasso Design is a visual arts ministry operating in North Carolina, USA. For the Art in the Church Workshop, Transpostions interviewed its founder,…
To sit in its shadow: Church, Art, and Layers of Meaning
To the left of the altar in Old Saint Pauls Episcopal Church (Edinburgh) sits a memorial chapel. In that chapel is perhaps one of…
Review: Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Review of Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 186 pages. Beauty is a significant philosophical category for the study…
Is art fundamental to human living? Birth as Performance Art
Back in March of this year, Transpositions hosted an extended book review of John Carey’s What Good are the Arts?. In the first chapter, Carey…