Christian Modern Art
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Art Deco 1923 Great Modern Sermons Hobart McKeehan Christian Book Vintage $21.59 |
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Modern Art Contemporary Christian Abstract Painting. Erika Gibson $0.99 |
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Mass outsider art modern abstract Christian Hope Cross $9.99 |
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Cross Christian Contemporary modern ABSTRACT art by Kume –”The greatest love” $55.00 |
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Cross Christian Contemporary Red/black/white Modern Deco ABSTRACT art by Kume $75.00 |
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Modern Art Contemporary Christian Abstract Painting.Erika Gibson $0.06 |
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Modern Art Contemporary Christian Abstract Painting. Save %80!! Erika Gibson $0.01 |
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Modern Art Contemporary Christian Abstract Painting. Erika Gibson $0.01 |
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Pewter Cross Modern Look Christian Mexican Metal Art Detail Discounted $4.95 |
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God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art N $26.80 |
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God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art N $33.44 |
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God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art S $19.65 |
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Mick Jagger (of The Rolling Stones) and Jesus, modern Christian art, tryptich $18,520.00 |
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Cross Christian modern black/white/red contemporary deco ABSTRACT art by Kume $75.00 |
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Scarf Vintage Christian Dior Retro Modern Primitive Art Geometric Abstract Cotto $20.00 |
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2 Catholic books – Modern Christian Art and Christian Sculpture $9.99 |
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MODERN CHRISTIAN w NUNS CHARITY PRUDENCE 1880 Art Matte $32.00 |
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Pewter Cross Modern Look Christian Mexican Metal Art Discounted Item $9.95 |
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Tourist Vandalism Spain Photo Mugs Modern Christians in the palace of the ancient Moorish kings, Alhambra – English tourists in Granada indulge in a little vandalism… …. |
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We Cry Out (CD/DVD) $10.91 CD We Cry Out w/DVD… |
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It Is Well: A Worship Album $7.91 CD It Is Well by Kutless… |
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Church Music $9.44 CD Church Music by Crowder David… |
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Christian Cross/Sign of the Fish Bronze Doorbell Button and Cover $29.99 Cast in solid bronze with a polished finish, the cross doorbell eventually gains a rich patina as time and weather work their creative magic. Designed for use with all 10 to 16 volt chimes, each cross doorbell cover includes a lighted button and mounting hardware. Designed and created in Oregon…. |
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Wallmonkeys Peel and Stick Wall Decals – Modern Basilica Where Pope Held Mass Guadalupe Shrine Mexico – Removable Graphic WallMonkeys wall graphics are printed on the highest quality re-positionable, self-adhesive fabric paper. Each order is printed in-house and on-demand. WallMonkeys uses premium materials & state-of-the-art production technologies. Our white fabric material is superior to vinyl decals. You can literally see and feel the difference. Our wall graphics apply in minutes and won’t damage your paint or l… |
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Christ is the center of our home Vinyl wall art Inspirational quotes and saying home decor decal sticker $13.99 Qty: 1 Wall Art Vinyl Decal Size: 22.5 inches in length x 13 inches in height COLOR: BLACK Image is not of actual scale. Please view the size above for actual size. Please be sure to make certain you purchase a QUALITY VINYL WALL ART DECAL. We Only use TOP QUALITY VINYL that lasts for years. Others are selling lower priced wall art by using lower quality vinyl that will fall off after a few days o… |
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The Fighter $5.72 Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/15/2011 Run time: 115 minutes Rating: R… |
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Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition) $22.50 Celebrate the 70th anniversary of Walt Disney’s PINOCCHIO! The legendary masterpiece that inspired millions to believe in their dreams has reawakened with an all-new, state-of-the-art digital restoration that shines brilliantly on DVD.Now, for the first time ever, the richly detailed animation, unforgettable award-winning music (“When You Wish Upon A Star”) and heartwarming adventure-filled story … |
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Pocahontas (Two-Disc 10th Anniversary Edition) $29.99 A powhatan maiden rejects the warrior her father chose for english settler john smith. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/14/2007 Run time: 84 minutes Rating: G… |
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The Art of Christian Listening $11.95 “A book, grounded in the Bible, contemporary spiritual theology and the insights of modern psychology, written as a guide for anyone who is required to assist others in human growth.” |
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The Christian Art of Dying: Learning from Jesus $30 “A Christian ethicist?’s personal search for a better way of dying. >Everyone dies. Not everyone dies well. Modern medicine has reconceived death as something to be defeated and forestalled at any cost yet too often this leads only to sterile, lingering death, in which the sick and aged approach eternity surrounded by technology and experts rather than family and friends, by people more attentive to the latest lab reports than to the task of dying well and faithfully. In The Christian Art of Dying Allen Verhey a renowned ethicist who himself faced death during a recent life-threatening illness sets out to help the church recapture dying from the medical world. Searching for a better way of dying, Verhey revisits the fifteenth-century Ars Moriendi a spiritual self-help manual on the art of dying. Finding much wisdom in the illustrated little book but rejecting its stoic and Platonic worldview, Verhey turns finally to the accounts of Jesus death on the cross, in which he discovers a truly useful paradigm for faithful dying a contemporary Christian ars moriendi.” |
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Christian Art $35 “> Palm mats and pilgrim tokens, manuscript illuminations and church frescoes, gold and enamel reliquaries and papier-mache figurines, Russian icons and Mexican murals: What makes these works of art Christian? And what, as such, distinguishes them from other works? These are the questions at the center of this book, which is at once a sumptuously illustrated survey of Christian art over time and across the globe and a probing study of what “Christian art” really means, how it functions, where it arises, and whom it serves. > Rowena Loverance draws extensively on the vast international collections of the British Museum, with its remarkable examples of Christian art in the fourth-century Roman empire, the meeting of Eastern and Western art during the Crusades, Christian missionary art and its reception in sixteenth-century Africa, India, and Japan, and twentieth-century Christian popular art from Latin America and Oceania. The Museum’s collections of decorative arts yield original and lesser-known Christian iconography, allowing the author to show how Christian and other artists have responded to a variety of visual traditions. Within the European convention, the book considers the assaults of post-Renaissance scientific and philosophical discoveries and concludes with an assessment of the current state of Christian art at the beginning of the twenty-first century.” |
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Lex Modern Art Guitar Canvas $69 Fun fresh mod art on 1.5"-deep stretched canvas. /? /Prot |
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Lex Modern Art Lollipop Canvas $69 Fun fresh mod art on 1.5"-deep stretched canvas. /? /Prot |
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Lex Modern Art Owl Canvas $69 Fun fresh mod art on 1.5"-deep stretched canvas. |
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Lex Modern Art Monkey Canvas $69 Fun fresh mod art on 1.5"-deep stretched canvas. |
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avalisa Modern Bubbles Modern Wall Art $59 This piece of art is &hellipwhat do you think they are?..whatever you want them to beExperience the imagination through colorshape and space / /Create whatever environment youDesigns are printed on fabric and hand-stretched over 1 1/2 deep stretcher bars |
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Lex Modern Art Ice Cream Canvas $69 Fun fresh mod art on 1.5"-deep stretched canvas. /? /Prot |
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Lex Modern Art Jolly Roger Canvas $69 Fun fresh mod art on 1.5"-deep stretched canvas. /? /Prot |
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Lex Modern Art Giraffe Wall Canvas $69 Fun fresh mod art on 1.5"-deep stretched canvas. |
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Lex Modern Art Lion Wall Canvas $69 Fun fresh mod art on 1.5"-deep stretched canvas. |
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Lex Modern Art Monkey Tree Wall Canvas $69 Fun fresh mod art on 1.5"-deep stretched canvas. |
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avalisa Giraffe Modern Wall Art $59 This collection is full of animal friendsThey are friendlyplayful and inviting / /Take them home and make a zoosafari or farm on your wallbe inspired by their simplicity and Designs are printed on canvas and hand-stretched on 1 1/2 inch deep stretcher barsDesigns come ready to hang. |
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Avalisa Horses Modern Wall Art $59 this collection is full of animal friendsThey are friendlyplayful and invitingtake them home and make a zoosafari or farm on your wall. /be inspired by their simplicity and happy / |
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avalisa Lions Modern Wall Art $59 This collection is full of animal friendsThey are friendlyplayful and inviting / /Take them home and make a zoosafari or farm on your wallbe inspired by their simplicity and Designs are printed on canvas and hand-stretched on 1 1/2 inch deep stretcher barsDesigns come ready to hang. |
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avalisa Longneck Modern Wall Art $59 This collection is full of animal friendsThey are friendlyplayful and inviting / /Take them home and make a zoosafari or farm on your wallbe inspired by their simplicity and Designs are printed on canvas and hand-stretched on 1 1/2 inch deep stretcher barsDesigns come ready to hang. |
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Avalisa Moose Modern Wall Art $59 this collection is full of animal friendsThey are friendlyplayful and invitingtake them home and make a zoosafari or farm on your wall. /be inspired by their simplicity and happy / |
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avalisa Owl Modern Wall Art $59 This collection is full of animal friendsThey are friendlyplayful and inviting / /Take them home and make a zoosafari or farm on your wallbe inspired by their simplicity and Designs are printed on canvas and hand-stretched on 1 1/2 inch deep stretcher barsDesigns come ready to hang. |
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Sacred Arch Ology; A Popular Dictionary Of Ecclesiastical Art And Institutions, From Primitive To Modern Times $53.83 The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher’s book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Original Publisher: L. Reeve Publication date: 1868Subjects: Church history; Christian art and symbolism; Church architecture; Architecture / Religious Buildings; Art / Subjects |
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1492: The Year the World Began $12.99 The world would end in 1492—so the prophets, soothsayers, and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. Ours began. In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe FernÁndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single, fateful year. Everything changed in 1492: the way power and wealth were distributed around the globe, the way major religions and civilizations divided the world, and the increasing interconnectedness of separate economies that we now call globalization. Events that began in 1492 transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Our individualism and the very sense we share of inhabiting one world, as partakers in a common humanity, took shape and became visible in 1492.In search of the origins of modernity, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travelers, drawing together the threads that came to bind the planet. The tour starts in Granada, where the last Islamic kingdom in Europe collapsed, then moves to Timbuktu, where a new Muslim empire triumphed. With Portuguese explorers, we visit the court of the first Christian king in the southern hemisphere. We join Jews expelled from Spain as they cross the Mediterranean to North Africa, Italy, and Istanbul. We see the flowering of the Renaissance in the Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent and go to the corrupt Rome of Alexander Borgia. We see the frozen frontiers of the dynamic, bloody Russia of Ivan the Great and hear mystical poets sing on the shores of the Indian Ocean. We sail the Atlantic with Columbus. In the depths of an old volcanic crater in the Canary Islands, we witness the start of the first European overseas empire. We observe the Aztecs and Incas laying the foundations of a New World in the Americas. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith—all the glories and follies |
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1961 Books (Study Guide): New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, James and the Giant Peach, the Destruction of the European Jews $32.29 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, James and the Giant Peach, the Destruction of the European Jews, the Genesis Flood: the Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications, Zweites Buch, Physicist and Christian, Noon: 22nd Century, 1961 in Literature, the Drama of the Lost Disciples, the Concept of Law, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, the Incredible Journey, Madness and Civilization, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, Germany’s Aims in the First World War, Vayoel Moshe, the Goa Inquisition, Double Sin and Other Stories, the Wretched of the Earth, Man, Play and Games, Ride the Tiger, for the New Intellectual, the Death and Life of Great American Cities, the City in History, Fire and Sleet and Candlelight, the Silly Book, Defeat Into Victory, Z Comme Zorglub, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation, the Making of the President, 1960, the Reminiscences of Solar Pons, the Children of Sanchez, Silence: Lectures and Writings, Strayers From Sheol, Fate Is the Hunter, Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, Storm Over Laos, the Three Robbers, a Fish Out of Water, Go, Dog. Go!, the Heroic Age of American Invention, Freedom and the Law, the Lime Twig, Canary in a Cathouse, the Myth of Mental Illness, an Experiment in Criticism, the Big Love, a Grief Observed, Suzuki Beane, the Other America, the Day of the Bomb, What Is History?, Far Out, Iqtisaduna, Asylums, Man and Power, En Remontant le Mississippi, a Girl and Five Brave Horses, the Sixth Man: a Startling Investigation of the Spread of Homosexuality in America, the Emergence of Modern Turkey, Wuest Expanded Translation, the Long Revolution, the Forest People, the Curious Sofa, the Spice-Box of Earth, the Middle Passage, Turn Left at Thursday, Madeline in London, |
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4th-Century Roman Sculpture $8.87 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is a marble Early Christian sarcophagus used for the burial of Junius Bassus, who died in 359. It has been described as “probably the single most famous piece of early Christian relief sculpture.” The sarcophagus was originally placed in or under Old St. Peter’s Basilica, was rediscovered in 1597, and is now below the modern basilica in the Museo Storico del Tesoro della Basilica di San Pietro (Museum of Saint Peter’s Basilica) in the Vatican. The base is approximately 4 x 8 x 4 feet. Together with the Dogmatic sarcophagus in the same museum, this sarcophagus is one of the oldest surviving high-status sarcophagi with elaborate carvings of Christian themes, and a complicated iconographic programme embracing the Old and New Testaments. Junius Bassus was an important figure, a senator who was in charge of the government of the capital as praefectus urbi when he died at the age of 42 in 359. His father had been Praetorian prefect, running the administration of a large part of the Western Empire. Bassus served under Constantius II, son of Constantine I. Bassus, as the inscription on the sarcophagus tells us, converted to Christianity shortly before his death – perhaps on his deathbed. Many still believed, like Tertullian, that it was not possible to be an emperor and a Christian, which also went for the highest officials like Bassus. The style of the work has been greatly discussed by art historians, especially as its date is certain, which is unusual at this period. All are agreed that the workmanship is of the highest quality available at the time, as one might expect for the tomb of such a prominent figure. Cast of Christ’s trial before Pilate, with Pilate about to wash his hands.The sarcophagus in many respec… More: |
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A Brief History of Nakedness $15.9 As one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had no idea that there was any shame in their lack of clothes; they were perfectly confident in their birthday suits among the animals of the Garden of Eden. All was well until that day when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and went scrambling for fig leaves to cover their bodies. Since then, lucrative businesses have arisen to provide many stylish ways to cover our nakedness, for the naked human body now evokes powerful and often contradictory ideas—it thrills and revolts us, signifies innocence and sexual experience, and often marks the difference between nature and society. In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity.            Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the naked body has been denigrated in the media, A Brief History of Nakedness reveals the ways in which religious teachers, politicians, protesters, and cultural icons have used nudity to enlighten or empower themselves as well as entertain us. Among his many examples, Carr-Gomm discusses how advertisers and the media employ images of bare skin—or even simply the word “naked”—to garner our attention, how mystics have used nudity to get closer to God, and how political protesters have discovered that baring all is one of the most effective ways to gain publicity for their cause. Carr-Gomm investigates how this use of something as natural as nakedness actually gets under our skin and evokes complicated and complex emotional responses.            From the naked sages of India to modern-day witches and Christian nudists, from Lady Godiva to Lady Gaga, A Brief History of Nakedness surveys the touching, sometimes tragic and often bizarre story of |
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A Companion To Wagner’s Parsifal $171.31 Richard Wagner’s Parsifal remains an inexhaustible yet highly controversial work. This stage consecration festival play, as the composer described it, represents the culmination of his efforts to bring medieval myth and modern music together in a dynamic relationship. Wagner’s engagement with religion–Buddhist as well as Christian–reaches a climax here, as he seeks through artistic means to rescue the essence of religion by perceiving its mythical symbols . . . according to their figurative value, enabling us to see their profound, hidden truth through idealized representation. The contributors to this collection break fresh ground in exploring the text, the music, and the reception history of Parsifal. Wagner’s borrowings-and departures-from the medieval sources of the Grail legend, Wolfram’s Parzival and Chritien’s Perceval, are considered in detail, and the tensional relation of the work to Christianity is probed. New perspectives emerge that bear on the long genesis of the text and music, its affinities to Wagner’s earlier works, particularly Tristan und Isolde, and the precise way in which the music was composed. Essays address the work’s bold, modernistic musical language and its unprecedented soundscape involving hidden choruses and other unseen sources of sound. The turbulent, astonishing, and sometimes disturbing history of Parsifal performances from 1882 until 2004 is traced in vivid detail for the first time, demonstrating the abiding fascination exerted by this uniquely challenging work of art. Contributors: Mary A. Cicora, James M. McGlathery, Ulrike Kienzle, Warren Darcy, Roger Allen. William Kinderman and Katherine Syer teach at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, and often lead study seminars during the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany. |
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A History of the Irish Church 400-700 Ad $21.71 The Golden Age of Irish Art and the time when Ireland earned a reputation as an island of saints and scholars is the setting for the subject of this fine short history. The records of the time and the best of modern historical scholarship are combined in a clearly-written overview of this key period. The book starts with the origins of Christianity in Ireland and moves on to cover in detail the life, work, and character of Patrick. It outlines the origins and development of Irish monasticism and introduces some of the major monastic founders, including Colum Cille in Britain and Columba’s efforts in Europe. The book concludes with a discussion of the penitentials, the Easter controversy, and early Irish Christian art. John R. Walsh is a past president of St. Columb’s College and Thomas Bradley teaches religion and history at St. Columb’s. |
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A Time to Keep Silence $12.95 While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in A Time to Keep Silence, Leigh Fermor writes about a more inward journey, describing his several sojourns in some of Europe’s oldest and most venerable monasteries. He stays at the Abbey of St. Wandrille, a great repository of art and learning; at Solesmes, famous for its revival of Gregorian chant; and at the deeply ascetic Trappist monastery of La Grande Trappe, where monks take a vow of silence. Finally, he visits the rock monasteries of Cappadocia, hewn from the stony spires of a moonlike landscape, where he seeks some trace of the life of the earliest Christian anchorites.More than a history or travel journal, however, this beautiful short book is a meditation on the meaning of silence and solitude for modern life. Leigh Fermor writes, “In the seclusion of a cell—an existence whose quietness is only varied by the silent meals, the solemnity of ritual, and long solitary walks in the woods—the troubled waters of the mind grow still and clear, and much that is hidden away and all that clouds it floats to the surface and can be skimmed away; and after a time one reaches a state of peace that is unthought of in the ordinary world.” |
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A Time to Keep Silence $12.95 Patrick Leigh Fermor set off as a teenager to make his way across Europe, as recorded in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. Later he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. A Time to Keep Silence stands out among Leigh Fermor’s various tales of travel and adventure because it is more an inward than an outward voyage. Here Leigh Fermor chronicles his several sojourns in some of Europe’s oldest and most celebrated monasteries. He stays at the Abbey of Wandrille, a great repository of art and learning; at Solesmes, famous for its revival of Gregorian Chant; and finally at the deeply ascetic Trappist monastery of La Grande Trappe, where monks take a vow of silence. Finally, he pays a visit to the abandoned rock monasteries of Cappadocia, cells and chapels hewn from the stony spires of a moonlike landscape, a place where he seeks to some trace of the life of the earliest Christian anchorites. Throughout this short, entrancing book Leigh Fermor thinks hard about the meaning of silence and solitude for modern life, especially for those who, like himself, are not a member of any church. Leigh Fermor writes, In the seclusion of a cell-an existence whose quietness is only varied by the silent meals, the solemnity of ritual, and long solitary walks in the woods-the troubled waters of the mind grow still and clear, and much that is hidden away and all that clouds it floats to the surface and can be skimmed away; and after a time one reaches a state of peace that is unthought of in the ordinary world. |
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A Time to Keep Silence $7.6 While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in A Time to Keep Silence, Leigh Fermor writes about a more inward journey, describing his several sojourns in some of Europe’s oldest and most venerable monasteries. He stays at the Abbey of St. Wandrille, a great repository of art and learning; at Solesmes, famous for its revival of Gregorian chant; and at the deeply ascetic Trappist monastery of La Grande Trappe, where monks take a vow of silence. Finally, he visits the rock monasteries of Cappadocia, hewn from the stony spires of a moonlike landscape, where he seeks some trace of the life of the earliest Christian anchorites.More than a history or travel journal, however, this beautiful short book is a meditation on the meaning of silence and solitude for modern life. Leigh Fermor writes, “In the seclusion of a cell—an existence whose quietness is only varied by the silent meals, the solemnity of ritual, and long solitary walks in the woods—the troubled waters of the mind grow still and clear, and much that is hidden away and all that clouds it floats to the surface and can be skimmed away; and after a time one reaches a state of peace that is unthought of in the ordinary world.” |
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Abstract Tate Mobile $64.5 FMS1143: Terry Frost was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Served in the Army and was held a prisoner of war in Bavaria where he met the painter Adrian Heath. After the war studied at the Birmingham College of Art, then at St. Ives School of Painting and at Camberwell School of Art in the late 1940$s. Later Frost went on to teach at a number of art schools including at Banff Summer School, Canada. Began abstract painting in 1949, worked in St. Ives in 1950-52 as an assistant to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Exhibited widely internationally and in England, at the Redfern Gallery, New Art Centre and Austin/Desmond Fine Art. Elected RA in 1982 and knighted in 1998. Royal Academy held a retrospective exhibition in 2000. The Tate Gallery and other public collections hold his work. Mobiles are a traditional craft in Denmark, but the modern mobile was created by Christian Flensted and his wife, Grethe. Their first design, the Stork mobile, met great success and now flies all over the world! Today, their son Ole Flensted and his wife Aase continue the tradition, with ideas for new and original mobiles issuing regularly from their Department of Space Research . The first mobile designed by Ole Flensted in 1970 and in 1972 Ole Flensted designed one of the most beloved Flensted Mobiles: the Elephant Party . Though still popular and one of their bestsellers, they are proud to present this 2009 version, which has been designed by using only circles and sections of circles. Designed by: Sir Terry Frost and Ole Flensted Features: -Material: Painted fibreboard. -All assembled and ready to be enjoyed or given as a gift. -Great to hang in any room of your house. |
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Aesthetics as a Religious Factor in Eastern and Western Christianity $101.95 This volume contains selected papers of a conference in 2004 at Utrecht University on aesthetics as a religious factor in Eastern and Western Christianity. They discuss the role of aesthetics in the presentation and expression of Christian faith in Catholic and Orthodox tradition. During its history, Christianity has produced many works of art: church architecture, iconography, painting, music and literary texts. And in Orthodoxy, beauty has always been the main form of religious expression, more than verbal presentation of Christian teaching, which is embedded in the aesthetic context of liturgy. In Christian theology beauty has often been seen as a form of divine revelation, related to the mystery of incarnation. The relation between aesthetics and religious belief has acquired new relevance in our secularized world. Today, the visible products of Catholic and Orthodox aesthetics are for many people the main means through which they come into contact with Christianity, and many people without affinity to religion are attracted by the beauty of Christian art, inside and outside the church. In modern religious studies, the experience of beauty is recognized as a factor in explaining religious feelings. The papers are divided into four sections: 1. Comparative aspects of Orthodox and Catholic aesthetics, 2. Religious aesthetics in Russian literary culture, 3. Applied aesthetics in church art, 4. Art-theoretical, ideological and religious-philosophical aspects. |
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Alberto Giacometti $31.99 Christian Klemm, Alberto Giacometti (Illustrator), Carolyn Lanchner, Tobia Bezzola, Anne Umland, Carloyn Lanchner,Paperback, Edition: 5, English-language edition,Pub by The Museum of Modern Art |
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Alexandria Rediscovered $21 The last ten years have seen some of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries ever made in Alexandria, the legendary Egyptian city founded by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. Presented here is a full account of these extraordinary finds and of the exciting expeditions that led to their discovery. Located on the northwestern end of the Nile River Delta, Alexandria was the greatest of Hellenistic cities and was a major center of Jewish and Christian culture. Athens’ equal and political rival to Rome, Alexandria awed ancient travelers with its wealth, size, and cultural prestige. But unlike Athens and Rome, practically no visible trace of this splendid city remains, and, despite over a hundred years of archaeological efforts, the results have generally been considered meager. Recent excavations, however, have yielded an unexpected wealth of information. Directed by the French archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur and conducted with the most modern methods, these digs have greatly enriched our knowledge of the art and architecture of Alexandria and of the lives and living conditions of its inhabitants. |
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Alexandria: City of the Western Mind $17.99 Alexandria was the greatest cultural capital of the ancient world. Accomplished classicist and author Theodore Vrettos now tells its story for the first time in a single volume. His enchanting blend of literary and scholarly qualities makes stories that played out among architectural wonders of the ancient world come alive. His fascinating central contention that this amazing metropolis created the western mind can now take its place in cultural history. Vrettos describes how and why the brilliant minds of the ages—Greek scholars, Roman emperors, Jewish leaders, and fathers of the Christian Church—all traveled to the shining port city Alexander the Great founded in 332 B.C. at the mouth of the mighty Nile. There they enjoyed learning from an extraordinary population of peaceful citizens whose rich intellectual life would quietly build the science, art, faith, and even politics of western civilization. No one has previously argued that, unlike the renowned military centers of the Mediterranean such as Rome, Carthage, and Sparta, Alexandria was a city of the mind. In a brief section on the great conqueror and founder Alexander, we learn that he himself was a student of Aristotle. In Part Two of his majestic story, Vrettos shows that in the sciences the city witnessed an explosion: Aristarchus virtually invented modern astronomy; Euclid wrote the elements of geometry and founded mathematics; amazingly, Eratosthenes precisely figured the circumference of the earth; and 2,500 years before Freud, the renowned Alexandrian physician Erasistratus identified a mysterious connection between sexual problems and nervous breakdowns. What could so cerebral a community care about geopolitics? As Vrettos explains in the third part of this epic saga, if Rome wanted power and prestige in the Mediterranean, the emperors had to secure the good will of the ruling class in Alexandria. Julius Caesar brought down the Roman Republic, and then almost immediately had to |
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Alfred Orage and the Leeds Arts Club 1893 – 1923 $19.99 Alfred Orage was one of those mysterious figures in our cultural history who was in his lifetime extremely influential, and after his death almost forgotten. He was the man who co-founded the Leeds Arts Club, possibly the only genuine manifestation of Expressionism in pre-second world war Britain, which promoted the philosophy of Nietzsche, the mystical socialism of the early Labour movement and suffragette feminism, as well as literary and artistic modernism. He turned the weekly newspaper the New Age from a failing organ of the Christian Socialism movement into the British equivalent of Germany’s Der Sturm, and the most widely read cultural periodical of its age. And he was the first mentor of one of the most important writers on modern art of the twentieth century, Herbert Read, helping to shape his philosophy of art, and through him the direction of international modernism.In this book Tom Steele follows Orage’s career alongside the history of the Leeds Arts Club, showing that modernism in Britain was not wholly a London-centred affair. Whilst Roger Fry and Bloomsbury were following and promoting French modernism in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Orage and other figures associated with the Leeds Arts Club, including Holbrooke Jackson, Arthur Penty, Michael Sadler, Frank Rutter and of course Herbert Read, were engaged in the far more radical modernist ideas coming out of Germany, with Sadler even collecting paintings by Wassily Kandinsky in Leeds as early as 1913. |
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Allegory In The Middle Ages $47 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Allegory in the Middle Ages was a vital element in the synthesis of Biblical and Classical traditions into what would become recognizable as Medieval culture. People of the Middle Ages consciously drew from the cultural legacies of the ancient world in shaping their institutions and ideas, and so allegory in Medieval literature and Medieval art was a prime mover for the synthesis and transformational continuity between the ancient world and the “new” Christian world. People of the Middle Ages did not see the same break between themselves and their classical predecessors that modern observers see; rather, they saw continuity with themselves and the ancient world, using allegory as a synthesizing agent that brings together a whole image. Four Senses of Scripture (Ways of Interpreting Scripture) There were four senses in which scripture was interpreted in the Middle Ages. Literal,typological,moral and anagogical. (Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church) There were four categories of allegory used in the Middle Ages, which had originated with the Bible commentators of the early Christian era. |
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Altars, Hearths And Graves $17.44 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:45 ENGLAND’S MISSION. SONNETa 1861. I Art thou content to be the modern Tyre— Half pedlar and half pirate of the world ? To count the sails of merchant navies furl’d In thy full ports ?—to know that some admire And many fear, and almost all desire To see thee from thy throne of empire hurl’d, And o’er thy palace-halls the smoke-wreaths curl’d, Which speak the presence of avenging fire ? Thine, England, is the sceptre of the sea, That thou mayst bear God’s message thro’ the earth, And spread the truth which makes man’s spirit free, Kindling on many a bright colonial hearth A flame from that pure altar, rear’d for thee Long since—an heir-loom of uncounted worth. Written for the Centenarian Jubilee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. But hast thou to thy destiny been tree, And bravely play’d the part to thee assignM, Dispensing to the tribes of human-kind Of heavenly truth the fertilizing dew, And labouring hard the heathen and the Jew In one great bond of Christian love to bind ? What are thy boons to man’s benighted mind ? How much, for service done him, is thy due? From thine imperial throne, proud Queen, look forth, Survey thy boundless empire, and declare In farthest East and West, and South and North, What trace is found of thy maternal care ? What generous zeal, that subject lands may share The Gospel-pearl’s inestimable worth ? Mistress thou art of matter—not of mind; The elements obey thee;—on the foam Of the sea-waves thou dwell’st as in an home; Canst bind and loose the pinions of the wind;— Control the lightning—pathways force or find Through earth’s dark entrails, where thou will’st to roam; And like a restless and resistless gnome, The gra… |
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Altars, Hearths And Graves $19.24 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:45 ENGLAND’S MISSION. SONNETa 1861. I Art thou content to be the modern Tyre— Half pedlar and half pirate of the world ? To count the sails of merchant navies furl’d In thy full ports ?—to know that some admire And many fear, and almost all desire To see thee from thy throne of empire hurl’d, And o’er thy palace-halls the smoke-wreaths curl’d, Which speak the presence of avenging fire ? Thine, England, is the sceptre of the sea, That thou mayst bear God’s message thro’ the earth, And spread the truth which makes man’s spirit free, Kindling on many a bright colonial hearth A flame from that pure altar, rear’d for thee Long since—an heir-loom of uncounted worth. Written for the Centenarian Jubilee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. But hast thou to thy destiny been tree, And bravely play’d the part to thee assignM, Dispensing to the tribes of human-kind Of heavenly truth the fertilizing dew, And labouring hard the heathen and the Jew In one great bond of Christian love to bind ? What are thy boons to man’s benighted mind ? How much, for service done him, is thy due? From thine imperial throne, proud Queen, look forth, Survey thy boundless empire, and declare In farthest East and West, and South and North, What trace is found of thy maternal care ? What generous zeal, that subject lands may share The Gospel-pearl’s inestimable worth ? Mistress thou art of matter—not of mind; The elements obey thee;—on the foam Of the sea-waves thou dwell’st as in an home; Canst bind and loose the pinions of the wind;— Control the lightning—pathways force or find Through earth’s dark entrails, where thou will’st to roam; And like a restless and resistless gnome, The gra… |
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Altars, Hearths And Graves $24.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:45 ENGLAND’S MISSION. SONNETa 1861. I Art thou content to be the modern Tyre— Half pedlar and half pirate of the world ? To count the sails of merchant navies furl’d In thy full ports ?—to know that some admire And many fear, and almost all desire To see thee from thy throne of empire hurl’d, And o’er thy palace-halls the smoke-wreaths curl’d, Which speak the presence of avenging fire ? Thine, England, is the sceptre of the sea, That thou mayst bear God’s message thro’ the earth, And spread the truth which makes man’s spirit free, Kindling on many a bright colonial hearth A flame from that pure altar, rear’d for thee Long since—an heir-loom of uncounted worth. Written for the Centenarian Jubilee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. But hast thou to thy destiny been tree, And bravely play’d the part to thee assignM, Dispensing to the tribes of human-kind Of heavenly truth the fertilizing dew, And labouring hard the heathen and the Jew In one great bond of Christian love to bind ? What are thy boons to man’s benighted mind ? How much, for service done him, is thy due? From thine imperial throne, proud Queen, look forth, Survey thy boundless empire, and declare In farthest East and West, and South and North, What trace is found of thy maternal care ? What generous zeal, that subject lands may share The Gospel-pearl’s inestimable worth ? Mistress thou art of matter—not of mind; The elements obey thee;—on the foam Of the sea-waves thou dwell’st as in an home; Canst bind and loose the pinions of the wind;— Control the lightning—pathways force or find Through earth’s dark entrails, where thou will’st to roam; And like a restless and resistless gnome, The gra… |
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