Hand to Hand: Listening to the Work of Art Contributor(s): Chretien, Jean-Louis (Author), Lewis, Stephen E. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 082322290X ISBN-13: 9780823222902 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $37.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chrtien uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chrtien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chrtien shows how talking hands of painters and the secretly lucid voices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual presence. |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Religious - Religion | Christian Theology - General |
Dewey: 261.57 |
LCCN: 2003011118 |
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.18" W x 7.92" (0.56 lbs) 184 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chrtien uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chrtien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chrtien shows how talking hands of paintersand the secretly lucidvoices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual presence. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lewis, Stephen E.: - Stephen E. Lewis is Associate Professor of English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.Chretien, Jean-Louis: - Jean-Louis Chretien teaches philosophy at the University of Paris IV. His books, as translated into English, include The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For (Fordham |