Tag: art
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Feast of the Ascension
It’s today. I love this picture so much. I’ve learned that the iconography of the disappearing feet is a pretty late medieval development – more on that at Ad Imaginem Dei – and that there is lots more of it. The earlier iconography of the ascension is equally awesome, though. Much more recently, Salvador Dali’s […]
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R.I.P. and Thanks, James Ensor
James Ensor (April 13 1860 – November 19, 1949) was the post-impressionist/early expressionist artist who gave the world Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889. My “bucket list” has never been long. But from the time I fell in love with this painting at first sight from the plate in some modern art text, seeing the […]
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The Good Kind of Envy?
Taylor, Barbara Brown. Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others. HarperCollins, 2019. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] I read an excerpt from Holy Envy in the Christian Century and thought “I’d like to read that book,” even though I didn’t agree with Barbara Brown Taylor about original sin. A couple of […]
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Think Much About Myanmar?
DeLisle, Guy. Burma Chronicles. Drawn and Quarterly. 2014. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] It’s a comic book. That’s probably not ALL anyone needs to know, but it explains a lot. I picked it up out of curiosity at the bookstore [“Hey, what is this?”] and was so charmed by the account, if account […]
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Younger
This came in email from Plough. It’s here because I didn’t want to lose it: Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up […]
Matters of Interpretation 