On October 11, 2011, I gave a talk as part of the Art+Spirit creative forum. For those who missed it or wanted to listen again, you may download the slides and an mp3 of the talk from the links below. Also, I provided Amazon links to the books that I had with me that night, plus a couple of others. Hope it helps.
Downloads
- Slides (1 MB): right-click and “save link/file” or similar
- Handout (26 KB): right-click and “save link/file” or similar
- Talk (24 MB): right-click and “save link/file” or similar
Book links
Of the lot, these are the top ones I recommend:
- The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri (HEN-rye) — This is the one I very highly recommended
- An Experiment in Criticism, by C.S. Lewis — I also very highly recommend this one
- Bearing Fresh Olive Leaves, by Calvin Seerveld
- Why is that Art?, by Terry Barrett — good encapsulation of art within four overarching categories (author is a UNT prof)
Others, in no particular order. Although some of these are more focused on writing, in general their discussions of art are more broadly applicable (though examples may be of writing rather than visual or performing art):
- Living by Fiction, by Annie Dillard
- For the Beauty of the Church, W. David O. Taylor, ed.
- The Christian Imagination, Leland Ryken, ed.
- Conversations with Flannery O’Connor, Rosemary Magee, ed.
- Love Alone is Credible, by Hans Urs von Balthasar — warning: this can be quite thick theological reading
- My Work: In Retrospect, by Hans Urs von Balthasar — warning: this can be quite thick theological reading
- The Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis — specifically for the essay “Learning in War-Time”
- Of Other Worlds, by C.S. Lewis — specifically for the essay “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to be Said”
- Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, by Andy Crouch
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October 19, 2011, 18:06 UTC
(updated July 25, 2014, 21:03 UTC)
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