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Visual Spirituality - Art, Mediums, and Cognitive Dissociation (Hardcover, New edition)
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Visual Spirituality - Art, Mediums, and Cognitive Dissociation (Hardcover, New edition)
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The importance of spirituality in shaping contemporary visual
culture has mostly been disregarded. Mentioning art and spirit in
the same sentence was considered embarrassing. In contrast, most of
the significant twentieth-century art movements developed in
conjunction with spiritual inspiration. This book explores the
topic through the lenses of media ecology, art history, and
psychology. Media ecology is a theory that media shapes how
messages are delivered. The non-commercial nature of spiritual
concepts would prevent messages from being offered through
commercial media. As a result, many respected artists whose works
are familiar have escaped understanding because people haven't yet
pierced the spiritual history of modern art. Images once considered
devoid of meaning are now being re-examined in terms of their
spiritual underpinnings. Kandinsky thought that he could correct
nineteenth-century materialism by replacing it with
twentieth-century spirituality. However, it was not until the
twenty-first century that modern art's spiritual value started to
be publicly recognized through scholarship and gallery exhibits.
Abstraction provides the opportunity to explore design as a
psychological self-revelation of the artist. Automatic drawing,
once a tool for spirit messages, became a psychological method with
the introduction of Surrealism. Psychology introduced the notion of
creative dissociation to replace the idea of mediumship as a basis
for art created in altered states. Art, as a personal and reflexive
expression, can be used to steady our culture from one that denies
spirituality to one that embraces it. We can all use artistic
techniques to become more balanced people. Spiritual and
psychological artistic techniques created the world of art we
experience today. Understanding these influences can help us to
better know the world in which we live.
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