"This is a very independent-minded book, wide-ranging in its examples and global in its ambitions. "Our Distance from God" goes its own way through point-by-point analyses of selected Christian artworks, in search of signs of the distance between the human and the divine. In the end, its broad reach does for the theology of visual monuments what David Summers's "Real Spaces" did for their phenomenology."--James Elkins, author of "The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art" "In clear and lucid prose, James Herbert ...
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"This is a very independent-minded book, wide-ranging in its examples and global in its ambitions. "Our Distance from God" goes its own way through point-by-point analyses of selected Christian artworks, in search of signs of the distance between the human and the divine. In the end, its broad reach does for the theology of visual monuments what David Summers's "Real Spaces" did for their phenomenology."--James Elkins, author of "The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art" "In clear and lucid prose, James Herbert offers a new perspective on several important artistic projects-pictorial, architectural, and musical-in the Western tradition, revealing the deep tension (sometimes productive, sometimes disabling) between representations of the world empirically known to human beings and of sacred realities not 'of this world' that figure 'our distance from God.' These sacred images engage and even express the immeasurable gap between humanity and God and help us traverse or transcend it; they work between literal spatial distances and metaphysical or spiritual distances. Herbert's deft and persuasive interpretations, which shed new light on interactions between art and theological speculation, will be highly informative for a wide range of readers-in art history, musicology, cultural history, aesthetics, and religious studies."--Whitney Davis, University of California, Berkeley
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Fine in near fine jacket. Illustrated in color and in black and white. xii, 198 pages. Small 4to, black cloth with gold spine lettering, d.w. Berkeley: University of California Press, (2008). Fine in a near fine dust wrapper.
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VG/VG-with very slight shelf wear to dj, but no edge wear. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine; grey dj with color photograph and white lettering; 198 pp. with numerous bw and color images, numbered by section. In this provacative encounter between reflections on Christian theology and the history of music and art, James D. Herbert explores how specific works of art establish a relation, at times distant, at times proximate, in conflict or in accord, between the divine and the earthbound audiences for whom the art was created.
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