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Written by Marchita B. Mauck. By Augsburg Fortress Publishers.
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No comments about Places for Worship: A Guide to Building and Renovating (American Essays in Liturgy).
Posted in Art and Photography (Sunday, July 6, 2008)
Written by Leland Ryken. By Multnomah Pub.
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No comments about Culture in Christian Perspective: A Door to Understanding and Enjoying the Arts (Critical Concern Book).
Posted in Art and Photography (Sunday, July 6, 2008)
By University Press of Mississippi.
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No comments about Sacred And Profane: Voice And Vision in Southern Self-taught Art.
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Written by David R. Mould and Missy Loewe. By McFarland & Company.
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1 comments about Historic Gravestone Art of Charleston, South Carolina, 1695-1802.
- Every visit to Charleston for me includes a walk through the historic graveyards all over the city. This book makes me want to go back and re-visit all the sites. It has so much information about the church, the gravestones (symbols, history), the people in the graves, and the carvers. I never knew to look for the carver until this book. It really is a great book for anyone who likes grave stone art/history, even if you never make it to Charleston. I checked the book out from the library and liked it so much, I had to have my own copy. Excellent!
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Posted in Art and Photography (Sunday, July 6, 2008)
Written by A. K. Coomaraswamy. By Fons Vitae.
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No comments about The Origin of the Buddha Image & Elements of Buddhist Iconography.
Posted in Art and Photography (Sunday, July 6, 2008)
Written by J. R. Judson. By Harvey Miller.
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No comments about The Passion of Christ. (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part 6).
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Written by Robert Henkes. By McFarland & Company.
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No comments about The Crucifixion in American Art.
Posted in Art and Photography (Sunday, July 6, 2008)
By Oxford University Press, USA.
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No comments about A Dictionary of Christian Art (Oxford Paperback Reference).
Posted in Art and Photography (Sunday, July 6, 2008)
Written by John Higgitt. By University of Toronto Press.
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No comments about The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy, and Luxury in Paris, England, and the Gaelic West (The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture).
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Written by Robert Muchembled. By Seuil Chronicle.
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3 comments about Damned: An Illustrated History of the Devil.
- It owns up to its title, An Illustrated History of the Devil. The text is sparce and not that great, but there are oodles of images. Lots of old stand bys in terms of images of the devil, but some different, more rare images, worth having, but a little light on new or unusual works.
- I FOUND THE PICTURES TO BE QUITE GOOD. SADLY, THE TEXT WAS SPARSE AND IN THE CASE OF THE MOVIES, I WONDER IF THE AUTHOR HAS SEEN THE MOVIES HE TALKS ABOUT. FOR INSTANCE: HE STATES THAT "...DR. PRETORIUS TEACHES FRANKENSTEIN HOW TO PRODUCE A FEMALE VERSION OF HIMSELF IN ORDER TO OVERCOME HIS CRUSHING LONELINESS." FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER ARE TWO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS. THE BRIDE WAS CREATED BY DR. FRANKENSTEIN, NOT BY THE MONSTER. HE MAKES IT SOUND LIKE LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT FOR THE BRIDE AND THE MONSTER. THIS MAY BE TRUE FROM THE MONSTER'S PERSPECTIVE, BUT THE BRIDE TAKES AN ALMOST IMMEDIATE DISLIKE TO THE MONSTER.
HE ALSO DESCRIBES THE FREDDIE KRUGER'S INCARNATION AS "...DECAYED LIKE A HUMAN CADAVER..." FREDDIE IS SCARRED BY THE BURNS HE RECEIVED IN THE FIRST MOVIE. HE IS NOT DECAYED.
HASN'T THE AUTHOR ACTUALLY SEEN THESE MOVIES? OR IS HE BASING HIS SUMMATIONS ON THE POSTERS AND STILLS HE SEES? HE SHOULD STICK TO THE PAINTINGS AND AREAS OF HIS EXPERTISE. WHEN HE GETS SOME THINGS WRONG, THEN ALL THE REST OF HIS SUMMATIONS BECOME SUSPECT.
MY RATING IS BASED ON THE PICTURES, NOT THE TEXT.
- Ah, the Devil. I've always been intrigued by the guy. From a brief foray into the Church of Satan in high school to a more academic interest in college, I've long been interested in the way religion and society attempt to explain the darker side of human existence. So I was rather delighted to receive this book as (irony alert) a Christmas present.
I was not disappointed. This is one gorgeous tome. The illustrations are striking and the commentary insightful and illuminating (if a bit brief). In particular, the section on medieval depictions of Satan is stunning...there is a creatively unsettling streak to those images which has yet to be matched. I do think the book fizzles out towards the end, as it enters modernity, but perhaps this is simply because us modern enlightened people have little use for devils and demons anymore. At any rate, pictures of the devil as a medium for advertising just don't compare to paintings of a triumphant King of Hell torturing the wicked.
Lastly, I had hoped that perhaps this book would take a little time to look at how non-Christian cultures have viewed the Devil or similar beings (like the Talmudic Lilith or the Arabic Shaitan). Even without that hope fulfilled, this is still a worthy and enlightening read. If you've got any sympathy for the devil, you'd do well to check this out.
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