From the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright to the rock gardens of Zen Buddhism, Coleman explores applied, fine, and folk arts in order to uncover points of coalescence between art and religion. Drawing from six living faiths (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Taoism), this book philosophically analyzes relations between art and religion in order to explain how the concepts "art," "beauty," "creativity," and "aesthetic experience" find their place or counterparts in religious discourse and experience. Coleman repeatedly shows that aesthetic ideas can serve as bridges to...
From the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright to the rock gardens of Zen Buddhism, Coleman explores applied, fine, and folk arts in order to uncover poi...
An excellent and exhaustive expansion of Coleman's 20-page chapter in Volume 3 of the valuable "Handbook of American Popular Culture." . . . Contents include a preface, introduction, chapters on history of magic, principles and appreciation, manuals on performance, relation to the other arts, ' biographies, and appendixes of historical dates, periodicals, directories, research collections, and dealers. Chapters contain very thorough bibliographies and there are author and subject indexes. It is impossible to imagine a more thorough guide to magic. "Choice"
The work as a whole is an...
An excellent and exhaustive expansion of Coleman's 20-page chapter in Volume 3 of the valuable "Handbook of American Popular Culture." . . . Conten...
