Art theory for beginners

The authors show how the idea of art has developed in the last 5,000 years and how we have reached the point we are at now. They provide a complete survey of all of the aesthetic, historical and pr…

Putting art (back) in its place

In frames and galleries, art is walled off from the rest of life. Christian discussions of art focus primarily on artists as lonely dreamers and encourage training artists in technique, while leavi…

Sanctifying art: inviting conversation between artists, theologians and the c…

As an artist, Deborah Sokolove has often been surprised and dismayed by the unexamined attitudes and assumptions that the church holds about how artists think and how art functions in human life. B…

Art as religious studies

This is an amazing statement about the power of the visual image from someone who spent his life expressing himself through the written word. The suggestion that Fra Angelico says more in this one …

Style & content in Christian art, c.1-2

This book is intended for those who want an orientation to a particular area of the history of art - Works of art relating to the Christian heritage. Thus the objective is necessarily twofold: to a…

Art & the Bible: two essays

Much modern art, like a Giacometti sculpture, portrays man in alienation, loneliness, despair. Was art always like this? Must it always focus on the lostness of man? Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer, a the…

The complete works of Hans R. Rookmaaker, v.2

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

1-903689-04-X

Collation

xxxiv,441p.; 25 cm.

Series Title

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Call Number

R700 HEN r/2

The complete works of Hans R. Rookmaaker, v.3

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

1-903689-04-x

Collation

xxxiv,441p.; 25 cm.

Series Title

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Call Number

R700 HEN r/3

The complete works of Hans R. Rookmaaker, v.1

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

1-903689-04-X

Collation

xxxiv, 441p.; 25 cm.

Series Title

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Call Number

R 700 HEN r/1

A handbook of styles and forms: art of the Christian world

This is a great handbook of early Christian art. It offers an overview of the different art styles and forms throughout the time since the rise of Christian art in the 3rd century AD until the renn…