Title: Transformations in Persons and Paint: Visual Theology, Historical Images, and the Modern Viewer (Arts and the Sacred)
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 2503565549
ISBN 13: 9782503565545
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dimensions: 22.23 centimeters width by 27.94 centimeters height by 2.54 centimeters depth
Weight: 1588 grams

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Transformations in Persons and Paint looks at images from the viewer's position, standing in a series of Florentine chapels, surrounded by frescoes, and discovering their powerful capacity to communicate what it means to live in a post-Resurrection world. Proving that there is still plenty to say about works by Giotto, Taddeo Gaddi, Masolino, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, and Ghirlandaio, this book uncovers previously overlooked theological content, and demonstrates the rewards of attentive interaction between a modern viewer and historical images. Within the growing body of work on theology and the arts, this is a rare example of what can happen when a theological gaze is turned towards some of the classics in the canon of Christian art, while speaking directly to the modern viewer. Chlo� Reddaway offers a new model of theological viewing, inhabiting both period and modern perspectives, and reinvigorating our understanding of the incarnational nature of Christian art by taking account of the particular physicality of images, especially as it is experienced through sacred space within and around them. Through close and imaginative encounters with images, a series of critical-devotional interpretations transforms beautiful artefacts into living explorations of the Incarnation and its consequences, the transformation and transfiguration that it enables, the particularity and interconnectedness of the created world, the generative capacity of liminal and (apparently) empty spaces, and the nature of vocation and conformity to Christ.

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Dr Chloe Reddaway is the Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Fellow in Art and Religion at the National Gallery, London, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the centre for Arts and the Sacred at King's College London. She was previously a Research Associate in the Divinity Faculty in Cambridge. Chloe is a regular contributor to Art and Christianity Enquiry and teaches for various theological colleges in the UK.

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