Negotiating rapture : the power of art to transform lives /
Negotiating rapture : the power of art to transform lives /
Richard Francis ; with essays by Homi K. Bhabha [et al.] ; with contributions by Yve-Alain Bois [et al.].
- Chicago, Ill. : Museum of Contemporary Art, c1996.
- xiii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
Exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 21 June-20 Oct. 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue / Joseph R. Shapiro Introduction / Kevin E. Consey Aura and agora: on negotiating rapture and speaking between / Homi K. Bhabha The fable of cortesan, the ascetic, and the king: Erotic, religious, and aethetic rapture in India / Lee Siegel Secret wisdom and self-effacement: The spiritual in art in the modern age / David Morgan The supposition of the aura: The now, the then, and modernity / Georges Didi-Huberman, trnaslated by Jane Marie Todd 'Saint John the Baptist in the Desert', Bill Viola Negotiating rapture: A travel guide to the exhitibion / Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw -- Tibetan Mandala, Ad Reinhardt, Thomas Merton, John Cage Saints and their journeys / Martin E. Marty -- Agnes Martin, 'The Rape of Ganymede', Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Francis Bacon, Paul Klee, Albrecht Dürer, Schematic diagram for an amulet Spiritual matters: Zen in American art / Helen Tworkov -- Anselm Kiefer, James Lee Bryars, Nicolas Poussin, Henry David Thoreau Notes on Kabbalistic ideas and imagery / John Hallmark Neff -- Barnett Newman, Native American art and the nuclear experiment Barnett Newman's Sublime=Tragedy / Yve-Alain Bois -- Bruce Nauman, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright Shamanism / Wendy Doniger -- Joseph Beuys, Indian 'Shamsa', Shirazeh Houshiary "Almost nothing" / Kenneth Frampton -- Antonio Canova's tomb sculpture, Lucio Fontana, Epilogue: Bruce Nauman, 'Window or Wall Sign' Jalaluddin Rumi - Mystic supreme of the Islamic world / Annemarie Schimmel --
Conceived as a series of journeys akin to those of saints or shamans, Negotiating Rapture brings together the work of Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anselm Kiefer, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and Bill Viola. These artists are exhibited together in order to reveal their diverse expressions of a shared longing: the basic and enduring human urge to transcend the ordinary and experience the Sublime. Juxtaposed with a range of works by Old Masters and examples from architecture, literature, and anthropology, the works in Negotiating Rapture show how artists, as creators, move beyond common experience to a state approaching religious ecstasy and how we, as viewers, can in turn discover a deeper involvement in our own humanity. Major essays by Homi K. Bhabha, Georges Didi-Huberman, David Morgan and Lee Siegel, as well as a series of focused contributions by Yve-Alain Bois, Wendy Doniger, Kenneth Frampton, Martin E. Marty, John Hallmark Neff, Annemarie Schimmel, and Helen Tworkov consider how rapture resonate's both in a cultural context and within the experience of a single human being. A "Travel Guide to Negotiating Rapture," written by Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw, explores how each artist in the exhibition has sought to define rapture and, by guiding the viewer/reader, initiates scrutiny of transformative experiences.
9780933856400 0933856407
lc95081492
Art, Modern--Exhibitions.--20th century
Art--Philosophy.
Art and religion.
Exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 21 June-20 Oct. 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue / Joseph R. Shapiro Introduction / Kevin E. Consey Aura and agora: on negotiating rapture and speaking between / Homi K. Bhabha The fable of cortesan, the ascetic, and the king: Erotic, religious, and aethetic rapture in India / Lee Siegel Secret wisdom and self-effacement: The spiritual in art in the modern age / David Morgan The supposition of the aura: The now, the then, and modernity / Georges Didi-Huberman, trnaslated by Jane Marie Todd 'Saint John the Baptist in the Desert', Bill Viola Negotiating rapture: A travel guide to the exhitibion / Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw -- Tibetan Mandala, Ad Reinhardt, Thomas Merton, John Cage Saints and their journeys / Martin E. Marty -- Agnes Martin, 'The Rape of Ganymede', Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Francis Bacon, Paul Klee, Albrecht Dürer, Schematic diagram for an amulet Spiritual matters: Zen in American art / Helen Tworkov -- Anselm Kiefer, James Lee Bryars, Nicolas Poussin, Henry David Thoreau Notes on Kabbalistic ideas and imagery / John Hallmark Neff -- Barnett Newman, Native American art and the nuclear experiment Barnett Newman's Sublime=Tragedy / Yve-Alain Bois -- Bruce Nauman, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright Shamanism / Wendy Doniger -- Joseph Beuys, Indian 'Shamsa', Shirazeh Houshiary "Almost nothing" / Kenneth Frampton -- Antonio Canova's tomb sculpture, Lucio Fontana, Epilogue: Bruce Nauman, 'Window or Wall Sign' Jalaluddin Rumi - Mystic supreme of the Islamic world / Annemarie Schimmel --
Conceived as a series of journeys akin to those of saints or shamans, Negotiating Rapture brings together the work of Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anselm Kiefer, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and Bill Viola. These artists are exhibited together in order to reveal their diverse expressions of a shared longing: the basic and enduring human urge to transcend the ordinary and experience the Sublime. Juxtaposed with a range of works by Old Masters and examples from architecture, literature, and anthropology, the works in Negotiating Rapture show how artists, as creators, move beyond common experience to a state approaching religious ecstasy and how we, as viewers, can in turn discover a deeper involvement in our own humanity. Major essays by Homi K. Bhabha, Georges Didi-Huberman, David Morgan and Lee Siegel, as well as a series of focused contributions by Yve-Alain Bois, Wendy Doniger, Kenneth Frampton, Martin E. Marty, John Hallmark Neff, Annemarie Schimmel, and Helen Tworkov consider how rapture resonate's both in a cultural context and within the experience of a single human being. A "Travel Guide to Negotiating Rapture," written by Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw, explores how each artist in the exhibition has sought to define rapture and, by guiding the viewer/reader, initiates scrutiny of transformative experiences.
9780933856400 0933856407
lc95081492
Art, Modern--Exhibitions.--20th century
Art--Philosophy.
Art and religion.