Spiritual Moderns

Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images, beliefs, and practices to create a distinctive style of American art. Spiritual Moderns centers on four American artists who were both modern and religious. Joseph Cornell, who showed with the Surrealists, was a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Mark Tobey created pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism and was a follower of the Bahá’í Faith. Agnes Pelton was a Symbolist painter who embraced metaphysical movements including New Thought, Theosophy, and Agni Yoga. And Warhol, a leading figure in Pop art, was a lifelong Catholic. Working with biographical materials, social history, affect theory, and the tools of art history, Doss traces the linked subjects of art and religion and proposes a revised interpretation of American modernism.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-03
Mått175 x 254 x 28 mm
Vikt999 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226820910

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Erika Doss is an art historian whose books include Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism; Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy; Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America; and American Art of the 20th–21st Centuries. Doss is Distinguished Chair in the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas, Dallas.

List of FiguresChapter 1. Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and ReligionChapter 2. Joseph Cornell and Christian Science: “White Magic” Modernism and the Metaphysics of EphemeraChapter 3. Mark Tobey and Bahá’í: “White Writing” and Spiritual CalligraphyChapter 4. Agnes Pelton and Occulture: Spiritual Seeking and Visionary ModernismChapter 5. Andy Warhol and Catholicism: Pop Art’s “Spiritual Side”Chapter 6. Spiritual Moderns: Culture War Controversies and Enduring ThemesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"Spiritual Moderns bravely retells the story of modern art, fraught as it may be, with a more honest look at how religion shaped it. . . . Through a series of four case studies, along with an intro and conclusion, Doss exposes how earlier historians of modern art have downplayed religion as a key ingredient in some of modern art’s most heralded breakthroughs. . . . [Doss's] strength as a historian shines bright."