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Item Number: 123438
Title: Swedenborg and Five Artists: William Blake, John Flaxman, Hiram Powers, William Page, and George Inness
Author: Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane ; Jane Williams-Hogan
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780877853473
Description: West Chester: Swenbourg Foundation Press, 2013. cm., pbk., 104pp. Summary : From its earliest publication, Emanuel Swedenborg's visionary theology has appealed to artists, innovators, and thinkers of all types and backgrounds. In this volume, two experts in the fields of art history and Swedenborgian studies examine Swedenborg's little-understood influence on five different visual artists. Starting chronologically in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century, the authors discuss author and painter William Blake and sculptor John Flaxman, looking not only at the Swedenborgian motifs in their art but at the two men in the context of early British Swedenborgianism. Following the expansion of Swedenborgianism across the Atlantic, the authors then consider three American artists: sculptor Hiram Powers and painters William Page and George Inness. Each chapter focuses in on key pieces of art that demonstrate Swedenborg's influence and the controversies that grew up around those pieces. The volume wraps up with an examination of the iconographical threads that connect all five of these artists. This richly illustrated volume sheds new light on the way Swedenborg's ideas were interpreted in visual media. Art lovers and fans of Swedenborg alike will benefit from this fresh insight into his influence. (^Available Summer 2013^)
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