ART IN ACTION : Toward a Christian Aesthetic
Wolterstorff, Nicholas
Eerdmans, 1980
240 pages

Wolterstorff finds the typical aesthetician’s view of art (that is, “high art”) remarkably provincial. Instead he proposes a multifunctional approach to art as instruments or objects of action, the critique of which is dependent on the “ultimate concerns” and context of both artist and audience. He shows the significance of art in non-elite settings of home, street and hotel lobby. Illustrations are drawn from classical and modern plays, movies, poems, dramas, paintings and sculptures. A distinctly Christian perspective.

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