What Do We Look At When We Look at Art? The Bible, Visual Art, and the Redemption of Existence

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
J. Hoult, A. Kulak
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Abstract:This study is dedicated to examining how the principles and values that mark the difference between the ancient Greco-Roman and biblical traditions help us to think about what (and who) we look at when we look at art. We begin with the Bible’s self-reflexive communication to its readers regarding the status of its own images and then consider works by Michelangelo, Tejo Remy, and Charles White—while also calling on Shakespeare, Hegel, and Kierkegaard—to show that art in the biblical tradition presupposes and expresses love as the transformation of life’s finite immediacies, the transformation of its finite givens, into the gift. We argue, overall, that the art of the biblical tradition demands that viewers pose the question of whether, where, and how deeply they find in those works—and in themselves—the principle of love as the redemption of finitude, the redemption of existence.
当我们看艺术时,我们在看什么?《圣经》、视觉艺术与存在的救赎
摘要:本研究致力于研究标志着古希腊罗马和圣经传统之间差异的原则和价值观如何帮助我们思考当我们看待艺术时,我们在看什么(和谁)。我们从《圣经》与读者就其自身形象的地位进行的自我反思开始,然后考虑米开朗基罗、特霍·雷米和查尔斯·怀特的作品——同时也呼吁莎士比亚、黑格尔和克尔凯郭尔——来表明,《圣经》传统中的艺术预设并表达了爱,即把生命有限的直接性转化为礼物,把有限的给予转化为礼物。总的来说,我们认为,圣经传统的艺术要求观众提出这样的问题:他们是否、在哪里、在多深的程度上在这些作品中——在他们自己身上——发现爱的原则是对有限的救赎,对存在的救赎。
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JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION
JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Aesthetic Education (JAE) is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning. The journal thus welcomes articles on philosophical aesthetics and education, to problem areas in education critical to arts and humanities at all institutional levels; to an understanding of the aesthetic import of the new communications media and environmental aesthetics; and to an understanding of the aesthetic character of humanistic disciplines. The journal is a valuable resource not only to educators, but also to philosophers, art critics and art historians.
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