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The Iconic Imagination

  • Paperback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 2.8 cm

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For seekers of understanding in art and spirituality

Addresses the marginalisation of beauty in modern thought

You will gain insights into art's redemptive power

The Iconic Imagination explores the deep connection between beauty, truth, and goodness in religious art.

Why is beauty consoling? Ancient and Medieval Western philosophy was primarily concerned with beauty in relation to truth and goodness. The theistic religions assume a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attributes. This is one reason for the iconoclasm that all three Abrahamic religions share to a greater or lesser degree. Yet, creative fictions of great artistic beauty aspire to a certain truthfulness. A work of the imagination may deepen or purify our emotions such that we gain a clearer understanding of reality. Beauty is consoling because it resolves the contradictions of experience; art can be a conduit to a supreme transcendent unity. "The Iconic Imagination" is both a reflection on the redemptive potential of art, and an investigation of the traditions of occidental Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam in their confrontations with the particular power of art to represent the transcendent. Throughout, Hedley argues that the malaise of much contemporary reflection upon beauty is a consequence of the marginalisation of beauty's religious dimension.
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  • Title

    The Iconic Imagination

  • Author

    Douglas Hedley

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    February 2016

  • Weight

    482g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441194633

  • ISBN-10

    1441194630

  • Eden Code

    4338518

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