Images of Earth & Spirit: A Resurgence Art Anthology - Hardcover

9781903998298: Images of Earth & Spirit: A Resurgence Art Anthology

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903998298 ISBN 13: 9781903998298

Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co, 2003

Images of Earth & Spirit features the work of more than fifty artists with more than 140 illustrations accompanied by interviews and insights into their work. Artists featured include Robin Baring, Cecil Collins, Alan Davie, Morris Graves, Andy Goldsworthy, Andrzej Jackowski, Richard Long, John Meirion Morris, David Nash, Margaret Neve, Peter Randall-Page, Haku Shah, Jane Siegle, Evelyn Williams, and Christopher Wood.
All the artists have been featured in the pages of Resurgence magazine, an international forum for ecological and spiritual thinking. In addition to challenging much of the conventional wisdom of our times (including the dream of unending material progress), Resurgence stresses the wisdom of beauty and, above all else, the holistic view--the relevance of interconnectedness. The work of these artists speaks of a new sense of the universe, a new sense of spirituality, holism and interconnectedness, openness and nondeterminism. It gives hope for the renewal of life in the future.

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For years, Resurgence Magazine has been the leading international forum for ecological and spiritual thinking. Now, amid steadily increasing circulation in the United States, Resurgence has sifted through its pages to compile Images of Earth and Spirit, a beautiful anthology of art that celebrates natural beauty and wonder.

Images of Earth and Spirit features the work of over fifty artists: more than 140 sumptuous illustrations and photographs accompanied by interviews and insights into the original artwork. Artists featured include Robin Baring, Cecil Collings, Alan Davie, Morris Graves, Andy Goldsworthy, Andrzej Jackowski, Richard Long, John Meirion Morris, David Nash, Margaret Neve, Peter Randall-Page, Haku Shah, Jane Siegel, Evelyn Williams, and Christopher Wood.

John Lane, Art Editor at Resurgence Magazine, argues that modern art, while seemingly diverse, has been fashioned by a number of unchanging principles which are imprinted on the world-view of a materialistic and technological culture. One of these principles is that of the autonomy of art; its independence of and separation from the artist. While art consumers try to understand the separate roles of creators and work, the artists featured in Images of Earth and Spirit have adopted something of a different agenda, disregarding the popular notion of a distinction between artist and art.

All of the artists represented in Images of Earth and Spirit have been featured in Resurgence Magazine. Besides challenging much of the conventional wisdom of our times (including the dream of unending material progress), Resurgence stresses the wisdom of beauty and, above all else, a holistic view of interconnectedness. The work of these artists speaks to a new understanding of the universe, a new sense of spirituality, holism and interconnectedness, openness and non-determinism. It gives hope for the renewal of life in the future.

About the Author:

John Lane is a painter, writer, and educationalist. He was Chairman of the Dartington Hall Trust, founding director of the Beaford Arts Centre, and instrumental in the creation of Schumacher College. His previous books include The Living Tree: Art and the Sacred, In Praise of Devon, Timeless Beauty, The Spirit of Silence and A Celebration of Devon's Churches. He lives in North Devon, England, with his wife, Truda.

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