This book is an exploration of how the relationship of evangelicals
to the arts has been portrayed in fiction for the last century. The
author argues that evangelicals are consistently seen as enemies of
the arts by non-evangelical writers. The artist (typically
represented by a literal artist, occasionally by a scientist or
reluctant messiah) typically has to fight for liberation from such
cliched character types as the failed evangelical artist, the rube
or the hypocritical pastor. Rather than resist the cliche of
anti-art evangelicalism, the book contends that evangelicals should
embrace it: this stereotype is only hurtful so long as one assumes
that the arts represent a positive force in human society. This
work, built off the scholarship of John Carey, does not make that
assumption. Surveying the current pro-artistic views of most
evangelicals, the author advances the argument that evangelicals
need to return to their anti-art roots. By doing so they would
align themselves with the most radical artistic elements of
modernism rather than with the classicists that the movement
currently seems to prefer, and provide space for themselves to
critique how secular artistic stereotypes of evangelicals have
economically and artistically marginalised the evangelicals'
community.
General
Imprint: |
McFarland & Company
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2013 |
First published: |
May 2013 |
Authors: |
John Weaver
|
Dimensions: |
226 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7864-7206-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-7864-7206-5 |
Barcode: |
9780786472062 |
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