Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Subjects & Themes - Religious

This inspiring book covers stories that are important for the upkeep of God's temple and for giving back to the one and only true and living God. I am not speaking of your money; I am speaking in praise, in worship, in honor, and in glory to God. He created us for one reason only, to worship his holy name. It is the author's hope that this book provides a clear understanding of what is pleasing to God, a sweet scent in his nostrils.
Biblical Stories: the Truth in Perspective connects the world of the past to the world of the present. The author tackles such issues as color, heredity,...

Meet Jesus as a gay man of today in a contemporary city with The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision. In stunning new images, the modern Christ figure is jeered by fundamentalists, tortured by Marine look-alikes, and rises again to enjoy homoerotic moments with God. His surprisingly diverse friends join him on a journey from suffering to freedom. Readers call it "accessible but profound." Some are moved to tears. The 24 paintings in the gay Passion cover Jesus' final days, including his arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection. A queer Passion is important now because Christianity...

Have you ever felt lost and alone? In this children's book, a butterfly sets the true example of how to overcome the feelings of being lost and alone to the darkness. With God, all things are possible, and it's never too early to teach a child the ways of the Lord. Your children will learn that God is a loving God. If he can help a little butterfly, which he himself created, he can surely help a child that has far more value than a butterfly. It's a guarantee that your children, or child, will love this book and pass it down for generations to come.

Religious subject matter is not central in 20th century art. One might therefore suspect that, for the avantgarde, the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) would have eclipsed religion altogether. However, as Juan Jose Lahuerta argues in this book, the war caused a considerable revival of certain themes of religious art. In particular, it intensified Pablo Picasso's lifelong preoccupation with the subject of the Crucifixion.

The work of the Swiss surrealist painter Max von Moos (1903-1979) throws additional light on the paradox at hand. In 1938, i.e. one year after Picasso painted...

Inclusive of several previously uncollected essays by the author, the volume...

In From Giotto to Botticelli, Julia Miller and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell explore the three-hundred-year rise and fall of the Humiliati ("Humbled Ones"), a religious order infamous for its attempt to assassinate Saint Carlo Borromeo and ultimately suppressed, by papal bull, in 1571. This book focuses on the order's artistic patronage and considers the major works by artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio that the Humiliati commissioned for the Church of the Ognissanti in Florence. Miller and Taylor-Mitchell reveal how the Humiliati promoted their public image...

In L. W. Willard's book Sheep'd he tells the story of Walter the good-hearted wolf, who is sent by his pack on a mission to find food. Walter is surprised by what he discovers on his journey, and he meets someone who changes his life forever. Told with wonderful illustrations and whimsical poetry, Sheep'd is a story that will delight children of all ages. It is both an entertaining children's story, and an insightful parable of the transforming love of Jesus.

--Michael Waters, Joyful 'toons

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Shamans walking on knives, fairies riding on clouds, kings with dragon mounts: They are gods and they are paper images. Some are repulsed and unsettled by shaman paintings, some cannot stop collecting them, and some use them as sites of veneration. Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon explore what it is that makes a Korean shaman painting magical or sacred. How does a picture carry the trace of a god and can it ever be "just a painting" again? How have shaman paintings been revalued as art? Do artfulness and magic ever intersect? Does it matter, as a matter of market value, that...