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In Search of the Sacred Image

by Aidan Nichols

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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What sacred images should surround the faithful at worship and be available to them for instruction, in meditation and in prayer? This historical study is driven by questions of catechetical, doctrinal and liturgical urgency. Aidan Nichols, one of the most respected and prolific Catholic writers of our time, has investigated the relation between Christianity and the visual arts in a number of books covering the history of Christian art from its beginnings through to the partial triumph of the Modernist movement in the 1950s. Now he looks in detail at the development of spiritual art in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He traces how in Russia the great tradition of classical iconography from the mediaeval period came to be preserved, paradoxically as a result of its very persecution, and then rediscovered. Simultaneously, artists in Western Europe were re-appraising the so-called ‘Primitive’ artists of mediaeval Italy, Flanders and Byzantium, while in Britain the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood revolutionized art and aesthetics. This fascinating study of these parallel movements sheds new light on the spiritual art of the period. More importantly, it asks us to look again at that art and its role in divine revelation, to see what riches are there and what lessons may be learned for a reinvigorated sacred art today.
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  • Author

    Aidan Nichols

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Gracewing Publishing

  • Published

    December 2019

  • Weight

    427g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780852449264

  • ISBN-10

    0852449267

  • Eden Code

    5195414

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