Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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Overview
From Walt Disney World to the movie Natural Born Killers, this book explores uncommon indicators of the spiritual in contemporary art and culture. Drawing on a diversity of perspectives in philosophy and aesthetics to highlight conscious and unconscious manifestations of the sacred in art, this work makes a compelling case for its continued contemporary relevance.Synopsis
From Walt Disney World to the movie Natural Born Killers, this book explores uncommon indicators of the spiritual in contemporary art and culture. Drawing on a diversity of perspectives in philosophy and aesthetics to highlight conscious and unconscious manifestations of the sacred in art, this work makes a compelling case for its continued contemporary relevance.
Booknews
Scholars of art, art history, and philosophy explore uncommon indicators of the spiritual in contemporary art and culture ranging from Walt Disney World to . They draw on mainstream western philosophy and aesthetics but also examples of Native American, Latin American, and African American aesthetic and spiritual precepts and practices to show how spirituality perseveres unseen by most critics and audiences. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)