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Visionary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin
(1895-1975) was largely ignored during his lifetime yet his oeuvre
has significantly impacted how we think about visual culture. His
ideas renewed interest in the word-forming potential of the
creative voice and he developed concepts which are bywords within
poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and
philosophy yet have been under-utilized by artists, art historians
and art critics. Deborah J. Haynes aims to adapt Bakhtin's
concepts, particularly those developed in his later works, to an
analysis of visual culture and art practices, addressing the
integral relationship of art with life, the artist as creator,
reception and the audience, and context/intertextuality. This
provides both a new conceptual vocabulary for those engaged in
visual culture - ideas such as answerability, unfinalizability,
heteroglossia, chronotope and the carnivalesque (defined in the
glossary) - and a new, practical approach to historical analysis of
generic breakdown and narrative re-emergence in contemporary art.
Deborah J. Haynes uses Bakhtinian concepts to interpret a range of
art from religious icons to post-Impressionist painters and Russian
modernists to demonstrate how the application of his thought to
visual culture can generate significant new insights.
Rehabilitating some of Bakhtin's neglected ideas and reframing him
as a philosopher of aesthetics, Bakhtin Reframed will be essential
reading for the huge community of Bakhtin scholars as well as
students and practitioners of visual culture.
Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary offers
lessons not usually taught about leadership, lessons learned over
the author's more than thirty years in higher education and
nonprofit organizations. Few resources on leadership and
administration attend to the inner life of a person in a leadership
position. Many of this book's themes are therefore related to the
inner moral and spiritual life. Some topics are prosaic, dealing
with everyday activities. Throughout the book, "pith instructions"
offer simple practical advice about the inner process and core
values that may inform the leadership path. Haynes draws on the
world's wisdom traditions--philosophy and religion, mysticism and
theology, including indigenous beliefs and rituals--as rich
resources for reconceiving leadership. This abecedary includes
drawings by artist Michael Shernick, which are paired with entries
from the "chronicles of experience," etymology and poetry, examples
of contemplative practice and meditation, and metaphoric
digressions. Common elements--such as lists and advice--mix with
uncommon elements, including recipes. This primer will provide
inspiration and insight for navigating the shoals, deep water,
rocky coasts, wind, and sunny climes of the leadership journey.
Description: ""One of the great joys of the academic life is to pay
homage in a Festschrift to a scholar who has influenced both
colleagues and students over years of interaction and friendship
both professional and personal. This volume honors a scholar and
theologian of historical theology, a theorist and a practitioner of
religion and the arts, and a keen analyst of cultural trends both
ancient and modern. . . . "" Margaret R.] Miles's prodigious
production as a scholar has legendary qualities. Her dozen-plus
books alone explore history, patristics, ancient philosophy, art
and art history, spiritual formation and religious practice,
critical theory, film, ethics and values, personal growth, gender
and women's studies, as well as her true academic loves, Augustine
and Plotinus. . . . The breadth and depth of her own work and her
influence upon others demands an expansive volume, which the
editors of this Festschrift unfortunately had to restrict to four
categories--Historical Theology, Religion and Culture, Religion and
Gender, and Religion and the Visual Arts--in order to capture the
heart of our appreciation for her."" --from the Introduction About
the Contributor(s): Richard Valantasis is Professor of Asceticism
and Christian Practice and the Director of the Anglican Studies
Program at Candler School of Theology / Emory University. Among his
numerous publications are The Gospel of Thomas, The New Q:
Translation and Commentary, Third-Century Spiritual Guides,
Centuries of Holiness, and The Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism. He is
also the editor of Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice and
co-editor of Asceticism. An artist as well as a teacher and
scholar, Deborah J. Haynes is Professor of Fine Arts at the
University of Colorado at Boulder. James D. Smith III is Associate
Professor of Church History at Bethel Seminary San Diego and
Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San
Diego. He also serves on the pastoral staff of College Avenue
Baptist Church. After many years on staff at several scholarly and
educational publishers, Janet F. Carlson is currently an
independent editor and writer. She has been a friend and admirer of
Margaret R. Miles for twenty-five years.
The Vocation of the Artist examines the historical role of the
artist and presents a particular perspective, grounded in the
author's experience as a practising artist and scholar, on the
contemporary function of the artist as prophetic critic and
visionary. Using specific interpretations of the words 'vocation',
'prophetic', and 'visionary', Deborah Haynes draws attention to the
need for artists to assess critically the relationship of the past
and present to the future. Bringing together a wide range of
historical and theoretical sources in cultural history, art history
and theory, and religion, this book is addressed to those
interested in the complex interdisciplinary dialogue of the visual
arts, religion, and ethics.
Bakhtin and the Visual Arts assesses the relevance of Mikhail
Bakhtin's ideas as they relate to painting and sculpture. First
published in the 1960s, Bakhtin's writings introduced the concepts
of carnival and dialogue or dialogism, which have had significant
impact in such diverse fields as literature and literary theory,
philosophy, theology, biology and psychology. In his four early
aesthetic essays, written between 1919 and 1926, and before he
began to focus on linguistic and literary categories, Bakhtin
worked on a larger philosophy of creativity, which was never
completed. Deborah Haynes's in-depth 1995 study of his aesthetics,
especially his theory of creativity, analyses its applicability to
contemporary art theory and criticism. The author argues that
Bakhtin, with such categories as answerability, outsideness and
unfinalizability, offers a conceptual basis for interpreting the
moral dimensions of creative activity.
Bakhtin and the Visual Arts assesses the relevance of Mikhail
Bakhtin's ideas as they relate to painting and sculpture. First
published in the 1960s, Bakhtin's writings introduced the concepts
of carnival and dialogue or dialogism, which have had significant
impact in such diverse fields as literature and literary theory,
philosophy, theology, biology and psychology. In his four early
aesthetic essays, written between 1919 and 1926, and before he
began to focus on linguistic and literary categories, Bakhtin
worked on a larger philosophy of creativity, which was never
completed. Deborah Haynes's in-depth 1995 study of his aesthetics,
especially his theory of creativity, analyses its applicability to
contemporary art theory and criticism. The author argues that
Bakhtin, with such categories as answerability, outsideness and
unfinalizability, offers a conceptual basis for interpreting the
moral dimensions of creative activity.
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