Art and Spiritual Transformation : The Seven Stages of Death and Rebirth,9781594772818

Art and Spiritual Transformation : The Seven Stages of Death and Rebirth

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ISBN13: 9781594772818
ISBN10: 1594772819
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-05-26
Publisher(s): Inner Traditions
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Summary

"Art and Spiritual Transformation" presents a seven-stage journey of transformation from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination, revealing the primal role of art in liberating the soul. Includes a meditation practice to experience the spiritual energy in art.

Author Biography

Finley Eversole, Ph.D., has lectured widely on the arts, philosophy, metaphysics, and creativity. He served as executive director of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture from 1966 to 1969, collaborating with Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, W. H. Auden, and Alfred H. Barr Jr., founder of the Museum of Modern Art. He is the author of Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts and lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

A Note on Viewing and Interpreting Art

Part I
The Overview

1. Dreaming the Myth Onward: Art Since 1945

2. The End of the Modern World

3. Creativity and the Extreme Situation

4. The Wisdom of Death

5. Seven Stages of Transformation

Part II
The Art

6. The Broken Center

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)

7. The Goddess of Death

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)

8. Deathwatch

Tony Smith (1912-1980)

9. Nihilism or Pregnant Night?

Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967)

10. Agony in the Underground

Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)

11. Evil and the Mystery of Darkness

Mark Rothko (1903-1970)

12. The Labyrinthian Search

Walter Gaudnek (1931- )

13. The Dance of Life

Arlé Sklar-Weinstein (1931- )

14. The Way of Regeneration

Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)

15. The Spiral or Infinite Journey

Robert Smithson (1938-1973)

16. The Way of the Transfigured Life

Walter Gaudnek (1931- )

Part III
The Creative Promise of the Coming Age

17. Unlikely Heralds of Spiritual Rebirth

18. Spiritual Foundations of the Creative Life

Bibliography

Art Credits

Index

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