| Description |
xvi, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- A note on viewing and interpreting art -- The overview -- Dreaming the myth onward : art since 1945 -- The end of the modern world -- Creativity and the extreme situation -- The wisdom of death -- Seven stages of transformation -- The art -- The broken center : Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) -- The goddess of death : Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) -- Deathwatch : Tony Smith (1912-1980) -- Nihilism or pregnant night? : Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) -- Agony in the underground : Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) -- Evil and the mystery of darkness : Mark Rothko (1903-1970) -- The labyrinthian search : Walter Gaudnek (1931-) -- The dance of life : Arlé Sklar-Weinstein (1931-) -- The way of regeneration : Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) -- The spiral or infinite journey : Robert Smithson (1938-1973) -- The way of the transfigured life : Walter Gaudnek (1931-) -- The creative promise of the coming age -- Unlikely heralds of spiritual rebirth -- Spiritual foundations of the creative life. |
| Subject |
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Art, Modern -- 21st century.
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Spirituality in art.
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Transcendence (Philosophy) in art.
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| Added Title |
Seven stages of death and rebirth |
| ISBN |
9781594772818 paperback |
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1594772819 paperback |
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