Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture - Softcover

Makoto Fujimura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600063012 ISBN 13: 9781600063015

Publisher: NavPress, 2009

Synopsis

A collection of essays, thoughts, and prayers from award-winning artist Makoto Fujimura, Refractions brings people of all backgrounds together in conversation and meditation on culture, art, and humanity.

About this title

Book Description:

"A bicultural abstractionist with a deeply meditative turn of mind, Makoto Fujimura has as much to say in words as he does in images. These essays, like his paintings, are rich and thoughtful explorations of art's redemptive power and its place in a violent, broken world. Rarely has a visual artist shed so bright a light on the wellsprings of his work."

From the Author:

"The culture at large is neither 'Christian' nor 'secular' but fantastically pluralistic, defying conventional categorizations. In each culture we will no doubt find evidences of trauma, like the ashes of Ground Zero. . . . We can choose to disengage from such intractable reality as our hearts struggle to find rest in such exilic ground as Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Darfur, Afghanistan, and so on. Or we can accept the splintered condition of culture as a kaleidoscope of common struggles, a reality that only the golden rays of God can restore and recreate via broken humanity. The latter is my starting promise in writing this book. As you journey with me in this refracted light, I pray the Spirit will indeed reveal God's presence in the undiscovered recesses of our creative journeys."

About this edition

• Publisher: NavPress
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1600063012
• ISBN 13: 9781600063015
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176