Our distance from God : studies of the divine and the mundane in western art and music / James D. Herbert.

By:

Herbert, James D, 1959-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprintPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 198 p., [20] p. of plates )Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520933965
0520933966

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Our distance from GodDDC classification:

701/.1 22

LOC classification:

N8248.S77

Other classification:

20.05

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Contents:

Louis XIV's Versailles -- Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung -- Monet's Orangerie -- Spence's Cathedral & Britten's War requiem -- Wilson's 14 stations.

Summary: In this encounter between reflections on Christian theology and the history of art and music, James D. Herbert considers how specific works of art establish a relation between the divine and the earthbound audiences for whom the art was created. He looks at five case studies over four centuries: the architecture and artworks that glorified Louis XIV at Versailles, the interaction of libretto and music in Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Claude Monet's enormous paintings of water lilies mounted at the Orangerie of Paris in 1927, the inaugural performance in 1962 of Benjamin Britten's War.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Louis XIV's Versailles -- Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung -- Monet's Orangerie -- Spence's Cathedral & Britten's War requiem -- Wilson's 14 stations.

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In this encounter between reflections on Christian theology and the history of art and music, James D. Herbert considers how specific works of art establish a relation between the divine and the earthbound audiences for whom the art was created. He looks at five case studies over four centuries: the architecture and artworks that glorified Louis XIV at Versailles, the interaction of libretto and music in Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Claude Monet's enormous paintings of water lilies mounted at the Orangerie of Paris in 1927, the inaugural performance in 1962 of Benjamin Britten's War.

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