Description
| Product ID: | 9780226820910 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Spiritual Moderns |
| Subtitle: | Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion |
| Authors: | Author: Erika Doss |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Religious and ceremonial art, Religious subjects depicted in art, USA, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images, beliefs, and practices to create a distinctive style of American art. Spiritual Moderns centers on four American artists who were both modern and religious. Joseph Cornell, who showed with the Surrealists, was a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Mark Tobey created pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism and was a follower of the Bahá’í Faith. Agnes Pelton was a Symbolist painter who embraced metaphysical movements including New Thought, Theosophy, and Agni Yoga. And Warhol, a leading figure in Pop art, was a lifelong Catholic. Working with biographical materials, social history, affect theory, and the tools of art history, Doss traces the linked subjects of art and religion and proposes a revised interpretation of American modernism. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Chicago Press |
| Publisher Name: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-03 |
