It is indeed encouraging to see the renewed interest in each other that is happening within the arts and Christian communities, two groups which have stereotypically been at each others' throats for most of the modernist and postmodernist eras. Now we are beginning to see the enormous debt owed to Christianity by many of the prominent artists of the mid-twentieth century; it is good that these things are finally being acknowledged.
Makato Fujimura's books are essential reading for tracking this intersection of art and faith. His thesis, outlined in "Art+Faith: A Theology of Making" and "Culture Care" is that artists are uniquely positioned to provide generative care for the culture around them—updating Shelley's dictum that artists are "the unacknowledged legislators of the world" to include more of the caregiving and nurturing roles under the artists' purview.
Would that I could join you at the reading but I'm stuck ("strategically positioned") in Nebraska. Have a good time!
GOOD VIBES; it’s October and city life is often at its loveliest at this time of year, I think: a hint of colour in the trees, a gentle breeze. A time of reflection well suited for urban living, either with a cigarette behind a newspaper or with a friend across the table.
I’m attaching - Dare we (not) hope? - an interesting book on cites who’s thesis draws clearly on such sensibilities. It’s an artistic, phenomenological approach to cities, from my own lived experiences. This is a topic that needs to be addressed and introduced again, as both an esoteric and exoteric reality, for the health of our souls:
Wilhelm Höjer; CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE: The City and the World.
Bring it on! High time for all this!
It is indeed encouraging to see the renewed interest in each other that is happening within the arts and Christian communities, two groups which have stereotypically been at each others' throats for most of the modernist and postmodernist eras. Now we are beginning to see the enormous debt owed to Christianity by many of the prominent artists of the mid-twentieth century; it is good that these things are finally being acknowledged.
Makato Fujimura's books are essential reading for tracking this intersection of art and faith. His thesis, outlined in "Art+Faith: A Theology of Making" and "Culture Care" is that artists are uniquely positioned to provide generative care for the culture around them—updating Shelley's dictum that artists are "the unacknowledged legislators of the world" to include more of the caregiving and nurturing roles under the artists' purview.
Would that I could join you at the reading but I'm stuck ("strategically positioned") in Nebraska. Have a good time!
GOOD VIBES; it’s October and city life is often at its loveliest at this time of year, I think: a hint of colour in the trees, a gentle breeze. A time of reflection well suited for urban living, either with a cigarette behind a newspaper or with a friend across the table.
I’m attaching - Dare we (not) hope? - an interesting book on cites who’s thesis draws clearly on such sensibilities. It’s an artistic, phenomenological approach to cities, from my own lived experiences. This is a topic that needs to be addressed and introduced again, as both an esoteric and exoteric reality, for the health of our souls:
Wilhelm Höjer; CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE: The City and the World.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGKQLKX5