Faith in Art

Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction

Professor Joseph Masheck (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-21697-6 (ISBN)

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Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with the initiators of abstract painting, Joseph Masheck reveals how an underlying religiosity informed some of our most important abstract painters.

Covering Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and El Lissitzky, Masheck shows how ‘revealed religion’ has been an underlying but fundamental determinant of the thinking and practice of abstract painting from its very originators. He contextualizes their art within some of the historical moments of the early 20th century, including the Russian revolution and the Stalinist period, and explores the appeal of certain themes, such as the Passion of Christ.

A radical new theorization of the influence of religion over visual art, Faith in Art asks why metaphysics has been eliminated from the discussion where it might have something to say. This is a new way of thinking about a hundred years of abstract painting.

Joseph Masheck received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art, of the College Art Association, in 2018. He is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, having also taught at Columbia and Harvard, USA.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
1. An Orthodox Kandinsky
2. A Protestant Mondrian
3. A Catholic Malevich
4. A Jewish Lissitzky
Conclusion

Notes
Index
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Aesthetics and Contemporary Art
Zusatzinfo	27 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-350-21697-6 / 1350216976
ISBN-13	978-1-350-21697-6 / 9781350216976
Zustand	Neuware