State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe
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Overview
We cannot escape the arts. They permeate our lives and our culture—the décor, architecture, music, entertainment, everyday utensils. The imagination of this age, its ideas and concerns, percolate throughout the culture via the arts. These ideas affect us for good or for evil. The choice is not whether to live with art; we must choose whether to live with good art or bad art. Art—like all things human—needs to be redeemed. Christians cannot abandon the arts to the secular world, but can use them to display God’s glory. This book will help us develop an informed artistic taste, open yet critical, discerning yet appreciative of what is truly excellent.
- Title: State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe
- Author: Gene Edward Veith Jr.
- Series: Turning Point Christian Worldview Series
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 1991
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Arts and society; Arts and religion; Christianity and the arts
- ISBNs: 9780891076087, 0891076085
- Resource ID: LLS:STTRTSBMPPLTHRP
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:13:55Z
Gene Edward Veith (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is professor of English at Concordia University-Wisconsin. He also serves there as director of the Cranach Institute, a center devoted to the study of Christianity and culture. His books include The Gift of Art: The Place of the Arts in Scripture (InterVarsity Press, 1983), Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature (Corssway, 1990), Postmodern Times: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture (Crossway, 1994), The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals (Concordia Publishing House, 1999), and several others. He is the cultural editor of World magazine.
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