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Redeeming art
November 3rd, 2010 Posted in The Artful LifeJoe Carter asks whether Christian artists can rescue the art world from itself:
“And so this is the situation we find ourselves in at the beginning of the twenty-first century: contemporary art is mostly comprised of theory-laden nonsense.”
Read the rest here.
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There’s also new evidence that modern art is a masterful CIA plot. Not kidding:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
Madeleine L’Engle’s beautiful book, “Walking on Water” addresses the topic of Christianity and the Arts quite well. Cosmos and Chaos….
Re-reading it currently. It’s lovely.
While John Gardner was not, as far as I could tell, a Christian, his book _On Moral Fiction_ is a must-read for those who love the Lord and wish to produce art that honors Him. Review of it will be in the next issue of _The Christendom Review_ (which can be found online), due out this month sometime, I believe.
Aaron, I should have known some of the godawful stuff passing itself off as modern art was really a form of psychic warfare
Ginny, thanks for the tip — hadn’t heard of it
Beth, I love the work of Gardner’s, and quote it every time I give a lecture on writing, in particular how the writer’s job is to “slice the fat off reality.”