{"product_id":"how-pictures-complete-us-the-beautiful-the-sublime-and-the-divine-hardback-9780804795739","title":"How Pictures Complete Us; The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine (Hardback) 9780804795739","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow Pictures Complete Us\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Crowther (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804795739\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 April 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 17 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Paul Crowther's vital contribution to the burgeoning field of theological aesthetics analyzes what exactly the experience of transcendence is and how it takes place through the mediation of visual art. At once a complement and a challenge to contemporary scholarship, his book is a must-read for anyone attempting to understand the visual arts as a humanizing endeavor.\"—Sandra Lynne Shapshay, Indiana University Bloomington \"Bold, original, speculative, and striking a good balance between analytical clarity and phenomenological perceptiveness, this book sets forth an important and exhilarating idea that it explores in a philosophically sophisticated manner.\"—Richard Viladesau, Fordham University \"[U]nlike other aesthetic studies, \u003ci\u003eHow Pictures Complete Us\u003c\/i\u003e looks carefully at a range of specific artists. Crowther's approach is out welcome because he focuses on what artists do....[A] rich study of aesthetics and the divine.\"—Ben Schachter, \u003ci\u003eReligion and the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic transcendence. They take us imaginatively beyond our finite limits and even invoke a sense of the divine. Such aesthetic transcendence forges a relationship with the ultimate and completes us psychologically. Philosophers and theologians sometimes account for this as an effect of art, but \u003ci\u003eHow Pictures Complete Us\u003c\/i\u003e distinguishes itself by revealing how this experience is embodied in pictorial structures and styles. Through detailed discussions of artworks from the Renaissance through postmodern times, Paul Crowther reappraises the entire scope of beauty and the sublime in the context of both representational and abstract art, offering unexpected insights into familiar phenomena such as ideal beauty, pictorial perspective, and what pictures are in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Pictorial Beauty and Aesthetic Transcendence\u003cbr\u003e  1. Ideal Beauty and Classic Art: A Philosophical Vindication\u003cbr\u003e  2. Pictorial Art and Metaphysical Beauty\u003cbr\u003e  3. Transcendent Subjectivity: Kant and the Pictorial Sublime\u003cbr\u003e  4. Color-Field Abstraction and the Mystical Sublime\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Momentary Subject: Photography, Painterly Transformation, and Digital Imagery\u003cbr\u003e  6. From Perspective to Icon: Marion's Theology of Painting\u003cbr\u003e  7. Metaphysics and Theology of Pictorial Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551716602136,"sku":"9780804795739","price":60.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/how-pictures-complete-us-the-beautiful-the-sublime-and-the-divine-hardback-9780804795739","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}