Our Distance from God: Studies of the Divine and the Mundane in Western Art and Music - Couverture rigide

Herbert, James D.

 
9780520252134: Our Distance from God: Studies of the Divine and the Mundane in Western Art and Music
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520252136 ISBN 13 : 9780520252134
Editeur : University of California Press, 2008

Synopsis

In this encounter between reflections on Christian theology and the history of art and music, James D. Herbert considers how specific works of art establish a relation between the divine and the earthbound audiences for whom the art was created. He looks at five case studies over four centuries: the architecture and artworks that glorified Louis XIV at Versailles, the interaction of libretto and music in Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Claude Monet's enormous paintings of water lilies mounted at the Orangerie of Paris in 1927, the inaugural performance in 1962 of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at the new Anglican cathedral in Coventry, and Robert Wilson's recent installation based on the Passion, 14 Stations.

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À propos de l?auteur

James D. Herbert is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Paris 1937: Worlds on Exhibition (1998) and Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics (1992).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520252136
ISBN 13 
9780520252134
Reliure
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
220
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