Art and Mysticism: Interfaces in the Medieval and Modern Periods

ISBN-13: 9781138718388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Louise Nelstrop; Helen Appleton

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From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, but mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God as artisan crafting a cosmos that likewise refracts and reflects His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology. The book features contributions from an international panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The first three sections investigate the interplay between the arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The final section then offers theoretical and philosophical considerations of mystical aesthetics. The purpose of the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore, an important and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to scholars of Theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who study the Arts and Art History.

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Introduction: Art, Articulation and Incarnation: Mystical Theology and Seeing the Invisible, Helen Appleton and Louise Nelstrop  PART I: Art, Aesthetics and Mysticism in Theory and Practice  1 Beneath the Surface: Whose Phenomenology? Which Art? Kate Kirkpatrick  2 Art and Inarticulacy, Bill Prosser  3 Art, Contemplation and intellectus: Aquinas and Gadamer in Conversation, Rik Van Nieuwenhove  PART II: Art, Mysticism and the Everyday  4 Jan van Eyck and the Active Mysticism of the Devotio Moderna, Inigo Bocken  5 Art and Mysticism as Horticulture: Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries in an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Barbara Baert  6 Medieval Pop: Warhol’s Byzantine Iconography, Jewell Homad Johnson  Part III: Metaphor, Making and Transcendence  7 An Artist’s Notes on the Art and the Articulation of the Mystical Moment, Sheila Gallagher  8 The Desert of Religion: A Voice and Images in the Wilderness, Anne Mouron  9 «　Bon Jhesu, sainctefie ces deux, conjoins ensamble par sacrement de mariage　»: le rapport entre le texte et l’image dans le Livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage et reconfort des dames mariees de Philippe de Mézières, Anna Loba  Part IV: Into the Darkness  10 ‘It’s Not Dark Yet, but It’s Gettin’ There’, Bernard McGinn  11 Visions of the Otherworld: The Accounts of Fursey and Dryhthelm in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica and in the Homilies of Ælfric, Roberta Bassi  12 The Gaze of Divine Sorrow: Vision and Mystical Union in Dürer, Cusa, and the Theologia Germanica, Simon D. Podmore