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Cliff Edwards
Cliff Edwards is director of the religious studies program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and author of Van Gogh and God.
Shock and art
Transgressions: The Offenses of Art. By Anthony Julius. University of Chicago Press, 272 pp., $35.00....
Artists in tension
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art by Deborah Silverman...
Painted word
Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meanings, by John DrurySeeing Salvation: Images of Christ in Art, by Neil MacGregor with Erika Langmuir...
Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph, by Jas Elsner and The Clash of Gods, by Thomas F. Mathews
The rich and fascinating resources explore the first few centuries of Christian art in the context of the culture of Rome and its provinces, imperial religious ceremonies and competing cults....
The Religious Art of Andy Warhol, by Jane Daggett Dillenberger
Andy Warhol's images of soup cans, brillo boxes, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Tse-tung have been silk-screened onto our consciousness....
Pursuing the elusive van Gogh
By Kathleen Powers Erickson, At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh. (Eerdmans, 192 pp.)...
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