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Sacred and Profane Beauty The Holy in Art

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ISBN-10: 0195223802

ISBN-13: 9780195223804

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gerardus van der Leeuw, Mircea Eliade, David E. Green, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

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Gerardus van der Leeuw was one of the first to attempt a rapprochement between theology and the arts, and his influence continues to be felt in what is now a burgeoning field. Sacred and Profane is the fullest expression of his pursuit of a theological aesthetics, surveying religion's relationship to all the arts -- dance, drama, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. This edition makes this seminal work, first published in Dutch in 1932, newly available. A new foreword by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona analyzes the continuing relevance of van der Leeuw's thought. Van der Leeuw's impassioned and brilliant investigation of the relationship between the holy and the beautiful is…    
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Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/3/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 388
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.29" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Preface
Foreword
Introduction to the New Edition
Introduction
Rivalry or Ultimate Unity?
What Is the Holy?
Methodology
Can Art Be a Holy Act?
"Primitive" and "Modern"
Organization
Beautiful Motion
The Unity of Dance and Religion
Circles and Planes
Dance and Culture
Prayer, Work, and Dance
Pantomime
Ecstasy
The Dance as the Movement of God
The Dance and Contemporary Culture
The Breakup of Unity
The Dance in the Diversity of Life
Profane Dance
Procession
The Dance of Death
Labyrinth Dances
Love Dances
Enmity Between Dance and Religion
Hostility
Dance and Theater
The Body Cult or Culture?
Religious Dance: Influences
The Ancient
Apollonian Movement
Dionysiac Movement
The Human
Religious Dance: Harmony
The Heavenly Dance
The Theological Aesthetics of the Dance
Movements and Countermovements
Holy Play
Dance and Drama
Drama
Sacer Ludus
The Mask
The Breakup of Unity
Art Is Not Imitation
Tipi Fissi (Fixed Types)
Secularization
Liturgy
The Enmity Between Religion and Theater
The Enmity
The Nature of the Enmity
Influences: Harmony
The Broadening and Deepening of Life
The Human
The Theological Aesthetics of the Drama
Liturgy
Beautiful Words
Holy Words
The Work Song
Rhythm
The Image
The Poet
Word and Gesture
"...A God Gave Words to Tell My Suffering"
The Breakup of Unity
From Carmen to Literature
Rain Magic Becomes Poetry
Poetry Becomes Prose
The Fairy Tale Becomes the Short Story
The Rejection of the Word by Religion
The Forbidden Image
The Forbidden Word
Influences Toward Harmony
The Sublime
Light
Silence and Near Silence
The Human
Harmony
The Theological Aesthetics of the Word
Poet and Prophet
Inspiration
The Divine Word
The Pictorial Arts
The Fixation of an Idea as a Holy Image
The Art of Movement and Pictorial Art
Image Is Not Likeness
Ornament
Representation
Imagination and Representation
Freezing Motion
The Image of God
Complete Stasis
The Living Image
Unhindered Pictorial Representation
Real and Decorative Nakedness
Expression of the Holy Becomes Expression of Holy Feelings
Transferences
Opposition Between Image and Likeness
Transition
The Prohibition of Images and the Iconoclastic Controversy
The Prohibition of Images
Iconomachy
The Holy Image: Influences
Paths and Boundaries
Fascination
The Awe-Inspiring
The Ghostly
Darkness and Semidarkness
The Human
Harmony
The Theological Aesthetics of the Image
The House of God and the House of Man
The Building of the House of God
The House of God
Building
The House of God Becomes a Human House: Alienation and Conflict
The House Can No Longer Be a Temple
The Temple Becomes a House
God Needs a House
Man Needs a House
No One Needs a House
Influences Toward Harmony
The Massive and Monumental
Profusion
Emptiness
The Theological Aesthetics of Building
Music and Religion
Holy Sound
Powerful Sound
The Transitional Structure
Liturgical Music Becomes "Church Music"
Passion and Oratorio
Words and Music
Refrain
Da Capo
Imitation
The Decline of Church Music
Music and Religion
Discord
No Conflict?
Music, not Tonal Art
Silence, neither Speaking nor Singing
Altercations
Influences
The Last Defense of External Continuity
The Sublime
Light
Suspension
The Heavenly
The Transition
Darkness and Semidarkness
Silence and Near Silence
The Endless
Objectivity
Harmony
The Theological Aesthetics of Music
Music, the "Telephone of the Beyond"?
Music Which Leads to the Depths
Program Music
In Praise of Opera
Music as a Game
The Theology of Music
Eschatological Music
Theological Aesthetics
Paths and Boundaries
To Seek, Not to Construct
"Religious Art"
The Antithetical Structure
"Artists"
Style
L'Art pour l'Art
Service
The World of Art
Absolutism
Psychological Parallels
Resistances
The Republic of the Arts
Words
Music
Conflict
The Holy Word
Holy Sound
Unity of Word and Music
The Hierarchy of the Arts
The Image of God
Phenomenological Component
Exegetical-Historical Component
Dogmatic Component
The Theology of the Arts
Independence and Interdependence
Point of Intersection
Harmony as the Creation of God
A Metaphysics of Art?
A Worship of Beauty?
Incarnation
Bibliographical Notes
Index