The Artistic Vision (eBook)

Cultivating a Sacramental Imagination for Creative Practice

Alex Sosler, Gary Ball (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
176 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-6667-6015-6 (ISBN)

Infos

When you look at the world, what do you see? As an artist, your creativity stems from your vision. The problem in the modern world is how often one's imagination is fragmented and reduced--between worship and work, the body and soul, the material and the spiritual. Written to practicing artists and those who pastor them, The Artistic Vision encourages artists who long for a greater sense of purpose and a greater sense of wholeness, proposing that seeing the material world as a shadow of spiritual realities will lead them toward an expression that joins faith and practice. Drawing from the Oxford Movement and artistic examples like Christina Rosetti and Flannery O'Connor, Ball and Sosler present a sacramental way of seeing the world: the invisible through the visible, the spiritual through the material, the divine through creation. Interspersed with practical vignettes from artists and pastoral reflection, The Artistic Vision helps artists regain an enchanted, mysterious, and reverent vision of life. Artists neither have to check their faith at the studio door, nor produce kitschy or easy art. By creating with a sacramental vision, they are seeing the world "charged with the grandeur of God" and inviting viewers into that participation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.7.2024
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Alex Sosler • ART • Beauty • Christianity and the arts • Christian life and practice • christian living • Christian Rituals and Practice • Christian sacraments • Flannery O’Connor • Gary Ball • History of doctrines • Oxford Movement • Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works • Religious • Religious Art • Sacramental Theology • Sacraments • spiritual growth • Spiritual life • subjects and themes • The Artistic Vision • theology and the arts
• ISBN-10: 1-6667-6015-3 / 1666760153
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6667-6015-6 / 9781666760156