Religion and art : A study in the evolution of sculpture, painting and architecture. By Alessandro Della Seta. With a preface by MrsArthur Strong. 10×6¾, 416 pp. 200 illustrations. London : Fisher Unwin. 1914. 21s. n.

1915 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 138-139
Author(s):  
H. Stuart Jones
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Art

scholarly journals The Philosophical Framework of Le Corbusier's Education: Schuré and German Idealism

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Rabaça
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Subsequent Period ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
Religion And Art

Abstract: This paper seeks to demonstrate that Le Corbusier's autodidactic agenda between 1908 and 1911 reflects a consistent philosophical reasoning based on the philosophical tradition of German idealism. The vehicle of analysis is the connection between Édouard Schuré's 'Sanctuaires d'Orient', a book Le Corbusier read in 1908, and three key episodes of the subsequent period of travel. Schuré's book provides us with the philosophical framework to which he was exposed. The three episodes, in turn, are taken as case studies in order to demonstrate the correlation between the philosophical background of the book and Le Corbusier's changing attitudes during this period. The terms of this correlation are based on an evolutionary conception of history and can be synthesized as the belief in cultural progress, leading to a new society built upon the unity of science, religion and art, in a secular-sacred life attained through the recovery of a pantheistic existence, and in art and architecture as a means to an epistemological experience. I will lastly argue that this creates the basis for the lifelong influence of idealism in Le Corbusier's work and thought. Keywords: Le Corbusier's Education; Schuré; German Idealism; Romanticism. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.671

RELIGION AND ART

1965 ◽  
Vol XXXIII (3) ◽  
pp. 281-282
Author(s):  
JOSHUA KIND
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Art

Islam and Art: An Overview

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
Image Function ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Direct Recognition ◽  
Modes Of Engagement ◽  
Religion And Art ◽  
The Way

Modern terms like “religion” and “art” offer limited access to the ways in which nonverbal human creativity in the Islamic world engages the “way of life” indicated by the Arabic word din, often translated as religion. Islam emerged within existing paradigms of creativity and perception in the late antique world. Part of this inheritance was a Platonic and Judaic concern with the potentially misleading power to make images, often misinterpreted in the modern world as an “image prohibition.” Rather, the image function extended beyond replication of visual reality, including direct recognition of the Divine as manifest in the material and cultural world. Music, geometry, writing, poetry, painting, devotional space, gardens and intermedial practices engage people with the “way of life” imbued with awareness of the Divine. Rather than externally representing religious ideas, creativity fosters the subjective capacity to recognize the Divine. Flexible enough to transcend the conventions of time and place over the millennium and a half since the inception of Islam, these modes of engagement persist in forms that also communicate through the expressive practices of contemporary art. To consider religion and art in Islam means to think about how each of these categories perpetually embodies, resists, and recreates the others.

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