Creativity and Spirituality: Bonds between Art and ReligionState University of New York Press, 27.02.1998 - 237 Seiten From the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright to the rock gardens of Zen Buddhism, Coleman explores applied, fine, and folk arts in order to uncover points of coalescence between art and religion. Drawing from six living faiths (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Taoism), this book philosophically analyzes relations between art and religion in order to explain how the concepts "art," "beauty," "creativity," and "aesthetic experience" find their place or counterparts in religious discourse and experience. Coleman repeatedly shows that aesthetic ideas can serve as bridges to spiritual categories, as when he relates aesthetic bliss to "the peace that passes all understanding." The author follows a three-fold approach; first, he examines ideas and motifs from religious classics in world literature, such as Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and The Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila, in order to relate them to aesthetic phenomena. Second, he turns to the statements of artists, such as Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Shih-t'ao, and Wassily Kandinsky, for themes and practices that have religious significance. Third, he analyzes and evaluates the writings of various theoreticians—philosophers, theologians, art critics, sociologists, and psychologists—on the relations between art and religion. Coleman demonstrates, for example, that Martin Buber's I-Thou relationship captures much that is central to art, creativity, and aesthetic experience as well as to religious life. Among the themes that receive sustained treatment are: the varieties of union in art and religion, the child as a paradigm for artists and saints, and creativity as essential to religion. Finally, the author critically weighs proposed distinctions between art and religion and between the broader categories of the aesthetic and the spiritual, rejecting some and showing how others are compatible with his proposal that the aesthetic and the spiritual are cognate categories. |
Inhalt
The Perceptible the Imperceptible and | 29 |
Receptivity Omnipresence and | 49 |
The Self and Union | 71 |
Artistic Beauty Natural Beauty | 107 |
The ChildState and Revelation | 133 |
Creativity | 155 |
The Aesthetic versus the Spiritual | 183 |
Notes | 199 |
Bibliography | 215 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absolute abstract aesthetic appreciation aesthetic experience affirms appreciation of nature art and religion artist artwork beauty become beholder Black Elk Buddhist child Chinese Christ Christian Chuang Tzu Clive Bell Cloud of Unknowing colors concept consciousness Coomaraswamy course creation Dharmakaya dialogue distinctions divine Eckhart emotions emptiness encounter eternal everything example existence expression feeling Francis Francis's Gauguin Gogh harmony Hinduism holy human I-Thou relation Ibid ideal individual inspiration Interior Castle interpenetration intuition invisible John k'ai Kandinsky Martin Buber masterpiece means Meister Eckhart monism mystic numinous object one's Otto painter person perspective Philosophy poet poetry prayer religion and art religious experiences Roger Fry Rudolph Otto sacred saint self-integration sense Shih-t'ao significance Similarly soul speaks Tao Te Ching Taoist Teresa thetic things Thomas à Kempis Thomas Merton Thou Tillich tion Tolstoy trans transcends tree truth ugly ultimate reality union unity universal vision Wolterstorff York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 63 - WHY, who makes much of a miracle ? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under trees in the woods, Or talk by day with...
Seite 79 - A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity— he is continually in for and filling some other body. The sun— the moon— the sea and men and women who are creatures of impulse, are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute; the poet has none, no identity— he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures.
Seite 102 - I know not how to express. I seemed to see them both in a sweet conjunction ; majesty and meekness joined together ; it was a sweet, and gentle, and holy majesty ; and also a majestic meekness ; an awful sweetness ; a high, and great, and holy gentleness.
Seite 63 - Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car, Or watch honeybees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon, Or animals feeding in the fields, Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite, delicate, thin curve of the new moon in spring; These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles, The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
Seite 85 - Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The Sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball and so are all the stars. The Wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle...
Seite 87 - I had never prayed before, and knew now what prayer really is: to return from the solitude of individuation into the consciousness of unity with all that is, to kneel down as one that passes away, and to rise up as one imperishable. Earth, heaven, and sea resounded as in one vast world-encircling harmony.
Seite 61 - Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ...
Seite 57 - In actual life the normal person really only reads the labels as it were on the objects around him and troubles no further. Almost all the things which are useful in any way put on more or less this cap of invisibility. It is only when an object exists in our lives for no other purpose than to be seen that we really look at it...
Seite 151 - There is only one way to help another to an understanding of it. He must be guided and led on by consideration and discussion of the matter through the ways of his own mind, until he reach the point at which "the numinous" in him perforce begins to stir, to start into life and into consciousness.
Seite 63 - To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle, Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, Every foot of the interior swarms with the same...