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Beschreibung
In his famous series of four paintings, the great American "father" of the Hudson River School of art, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), depicted the life of a single representative human Soul as a voyage from birth to death-each painting illustrating a further bend in the river of life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and finally, Old Age. Cole supplemented his series with a long poem (reproduced at the end of this volume) along the lines of Dante's Divine Comedy or Newman's Dream of Gerontius, elucidating the meaning of his art. Drawing upon these resources together with the religious and philosophical influences of his time, Addison Hodges Hart succeeds in making The Voyage of Life poignantly applicable to us in the here and now. In Hart's masterful hands, Cole's masterpiece comes alive as timeless wisdom, insight, even contemplative counsel. Like all genuine art, Cole's series communicates one human soul's truth to another, regardless of the distance in space, time, or worldview that may separate them.
In his famous series of four paintings, the great American "father" of the Hudson River School of art, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), depicted the life of a single representative human Soul as a voyage from birth to death-each painting illustrating a further bend in the river of life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and finally, Old Age. Cole supplemented his series with a long poem (reproduced at the end of this volume) along the lines of Dante's Divine Comedy or Newman's Dream of Gerontius, elucidating the meaning of his art. Drawing upon these resources together with the religious and philosophical influences of his time, Addison Hodges Hart succeeds in making The Voyage of Life poignantly applicable to us in the here and now. In Hart's masterful hands, Cole's masterpiece comes alive as timeless wisdom, insight, even contemplative counsel. Like all genuine art, Cole's series communicates one human soul's truth to another, regardless of the distance in space, time, or worldview that may separate them.
Über den Autor
ADDISON HODGES HART is the author of ten previous books, including nine volumes of non-fiction and a novel, Confessions of the Antichrist, published by Angelico Press. His most recent book, also published by Angelico Press, is The Voyage of Life: The Sacred Vision of Thomas Cole (2023), a work combining art history, philosophy, spirituality, and biography. A native of Ellicott City, Maryland, he has drawn on his own experience of that region in writing this collection of spooky tales. He currently resides in Norway. (He also has a lively, easy-to-access Substack page, The Pragmatic Mystic, that deals with topics related to his books.)
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781621389149
ISBN-10: 1621389146
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hart, Addison Hodges
Hersteller: Angelico Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 191 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Addison Hodges Hart
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.03.2023
Gewicht: 0,338 kg
Artikel-ID: 126730429

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