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.
- ISBN10 0226791327
- ISBN13 9780226791326
- Publish Date 1 November 1992
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 January 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English