عنوان

Ad Reinhardt's "Black" Paintings

شماره

LA125340

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Ad Reinhardt's "Black" Paintings

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Arden Reed

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

By education and inclination, Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) was a politically engaged artist. His gifts suited him well for producing cartoons and collages in left-wing publications. But could he integrate his abstract, avant-garde painting with his activism? The solution came largely through his readings and lifelong friendship with Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Reinhardt's famous "black" paintings embody negation theology-defining the deity by what it is not. Further, because these paintings require several minutes of intense looking simply to grasp, they exemplify what I call "slow art," which recreates in a secular idiom the conditions for rumination common to spiritual practices. To jettison the ecclesiastical was not, for Reinhardt, to abandon the spiritual: Merton described his own "black" painting as "a very 'holy' picture ... an 'image' without features to accustom the mind ... to the night of prayer and ... set aside trivial and useless images that wander into prayer and spoil it." By education and inclination, Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) was a politically engaged artist. His gifts suited him well for producing cartoons and collages in left-wing publications. But could he integrate his abstract, avant-garde painting with his activism? The solution came largely through his readings and lifelong friendship with Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Reinhardt's famous "black" paintings embody negation theology-defining the deity by what it is not. Further, because these paintings require several minutes of intense looking simply to grasp, they exemplify what I call "slow art," which recreates in a secular idiom the conditions for rumination common to spiritual practices. To jettison the ecclesiastical was not, for Reinhardt, to abandon the spiritual: Merton described his own "black" painting as "a very 'holy' picture ... an 'image' without features to accustom the mind ... to the night of prayer and ... set aside trivial and useless images that wander into prayer and spoil it."

تاريخ نشر

2015

توصيف ظاهري

214-229

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

19/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

"black" painting

اصطلاح موضوعی

Ad Reinhardt

اصطلاح موضوعی

negation theology

اصطلاح موضوعی

slowness

اصطلاح موضوعی

socially-engaged artist

اصطلاح موضوعی

Thomas Merton

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Arden Reed

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-01903002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y