Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Cloth, xiv, 346 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Religion and Postmodernism Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with a slightly sunned spine (bold & legible titles), protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Disfiguring is the first sustained interpretation of the deep but often hidden links among twentieth-century art, architecture, and religion. While many of the greatest modern painters and architects have insisted on the spiritual significance of their work, historians of modern art and architecture have largely avoided questions of religion. Likewise, contemporary philosophers and theologians have, for the most part, ignored visual arts. Taylor presents a carefully structured and subtly nuanced analysis of the religious presuppositions that inform recent artistic theory and practice--and, in doing so, recasts the cultural landscape of our era. / Mark C. Taylor, Preston S. Parish Third Century Professor of Humanities at Williams College, is the author of Erring: A Postmodern A/theology and Altarity, both published by the University of Chicago Press." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.