Doss Erika
Doss Erika - Spiritual Moderns Twentieth - Century American Artists And Religion - Hardcover
Doss Erika - Spiritual Moderns Twentieth - Century American Artists And Religion - Hardcover
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Description: Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best - known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary went to mass regularly kept a Bible by his bedside and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images beliefs and practices to create a distinctive style of American art. Spiritual Moderns centers on four American artists who were both modern and religious. Joseph Cornell who showed with the Surrealists was a member of the Church of Christ Scientist. Mark Tobey created pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism and was a follower of the Bah Faith. Agnes Pelton was a Symbolist painter who embraced metaphysical movements including New Thought Theosophy and Agni Yoga. And Warhol a leading figure in Pop art was a lifelong Catholic. Working with biographical materials social history affect theory and the tools of art history Doss traces the linked subjects of art and religion and proposes a revised interpretation of American modernism.
Title: Spiritual Moderns Twentieth - Century American Artists And Religion
Author(s): Doss Erika
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226820910
Pages: 352 Pages, 122 Halftones
Publication Date: 5/3/2023
Category: Religious Subjects Depicted In Art
Description: Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best - known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary went to mass regularly kept a Bible by his bedside and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images beliefs and practices to create a distinctive style of American art. Spiritual Moderns centers on four American artists who were both modern and religious. Joseph Cornell who showed with the Surrealists was a member of the Church of Christ Scientist. Mark Tobey created pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism and was a follower of the Bah Faith. Agnes Pelton was a Symbolist painter who embraced metaphysical movements including New Thought Theosophy and Agni Yoga. And Warhol a leading figure in Pop art was a lifelong Catholic. Working with biographical materials social history affect theory and the tools of art history Doss traces the linked subjects of art and religion and proposes a revised interpretation of American modernism.
Title: Spiritual Moderns Twentieth - Century American Artists And Religion
Author(s): Doss Erika
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226820910
Pages: 352 Pages, 122 Halftones
Publication Date: 5/3/2023
Category: Religious Subjects Depicted In Art
