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Spiritual moderns : twentieth-century American artists & religion

Title: Spiritual moderns : twentieth-century American artists & religion / Erika Doss.
Author: Doss, Erika, 1956-
Publication: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2023.

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Description

x, 337 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

"Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images, beliefs, and practices to create a distinctive style of American art. Spiritual Moderns centers on four American artists who were both modern and religious. Joseph Cornell, who showed with the Surrealists, was a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Mark Tobey created pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism and was a follower of the Bahá'í Faith. Agnes Pelton was a Symbolist painter who embraced metaphysical movements including New Thought, Theosophy, and Agni Yoga. And Warhol, a leading figure in Pop art, was a lifelong Catholic. Working with biographical materials, social history, affect theory, and the tools of art history, Doss traces the linked subjects of art and religion and proposes a revised interpretation of American modernism"--

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Spiritual moderns: twentieth-century American artists and religion -- Joseph Cornell and Christian Science: "white magic" modernism and the metaphysics of ephemera -- Mark Tobey and Bahá'í: "white writing" and spiritual calligraphy -- Agnes Pelton and occulture: spiritual seeking and visionary modernism -- Andy Warhol and Catholicism: pop art's "spiritual side" -- Spiritual moderns: culture war controversies and enduring themes.

Call Number

JQF 24-494

ISBN

9780226820910
0226820912
9780226823478 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022020392

OCLC

1304357686

Author

Doss, Erika, 1956- author.

Title

Spiritual moderns : twentieth-century American artists & religion / Erika Doss.

Publisher

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JQF 24-494

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