The importance of spirituality in shaping contemporary visual culture
has mostly been disregarded. Mentioning art and spirit in the same
sentence was considered embarrassing. In contrast, most of the
significant twentieth-century art movements developed in conjunction
with spiritual inspiration. This book explores the topic through the
lenses of media ecology, art history, and psychology. Media ecology is
a theory that media shapes how messages are delivered. The
non-commercial nature of spiritual concepts would prevent messages
from being offered through commercial media. As a result, many
respected artists whose works are familiar have escaped understanding
because people haven't yet pierced the spiritual history of modern
art. Images once considered devoid of meaning are now being
re-examined in terms of their spiritual underpinnings. Kandinsky
thought that he could correct nineteenth-century materialism by
replacing it with twentieth-century spirituality. However, it was not
until the twenty-first century that modern art's spiritual value
started to be publicly recognized through scholarship and gallery
exhibits. Abstraction provides the opportunity to explore design as a
psychological self-revelation of the artist. Automatic drawing, once a
tool for spirit messages, became a psychological method with the
introduction of Surrealism. Psychology introduced the notion of
creative dissociation to replace the idea of mediumship as a basis for
art created in altered states. Art, as a personal and reflexive
expression, can be used to steady our culture from one that denies
spirituality to one that embraces it. We can all use artistic
techniques to become more balanced people. Spiritual and psychological
artistic techniques created the world of art we experience today.
Understanding these influences can help us to better know the world in
which we live.
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ISBN
9781433175824
Publisert
2023
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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