God in the Modern Wing () von Cameron J. Anderson

Foreword by Shannon Johnson Kershner
Preface by G. Walter Hansen
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Being Modern (Cameron J. Anderson)
1. Visitation: Engaging Art as an Epiphanic Leap (Tim Lowly)
2. Chagall's Cathedral: Faith, Hope, and Love in the Art Institute's Modern Wing (Matthew J. Milliner)
3. Transcendence and Immanence: The Sculpture of Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti (Cameron J. Anderson)
4. Cubism: The Real Figuration of Being (Joel C. Sheesley)
5. God in the Wasteland . . . and in the Seaside Paradise: The Late Works of Philip Guston and Richard Diebenkorn (Bruce Herman)
6. Theological Imagination: The Paintings of Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman (Linda Stratford)
7. The Impossibility of Mark Rothko (Makoto Fujimura)
8. Hidden in Pop: Andy Warhol's Art as Modern Religious Iconography (David W. McNutt)
9. Who Is My Neighbor? The Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Charles White (Steve Prince)
10. André Cadere: Am I Bothering Us? Arts as Protest in the Gallery (Leah Samuelson)
Afterword: Making Space (Cameron J. Anderson)
Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Figure Credits
General Index
Scripture Index

Should Christians even bother with the modern wing at the art museum? After all, modern art and artists are often caricatured as rabidly opposed to God, the churchindeed, to faith of any kind. But is that all there is to the story?In this Studies in Theology and the Arts volume, coeditors Cameron J. Anderson and G. Walter Hansen gather the reflections of artists, art historians, and theologians who collectively offer a more complicated narrative of the history of modern art and its place in the Christian life. Here, readers will find insights on the work and faith of artists including Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, and more.For those willing to look with eyes of faith, they may just find that God is present in the modern wing too.The Studies in Theology and the Arts series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.

G. Walter Hansen (ThD, University of Toronto) is professor emeritus at Fuller Theological Seminary. He previously served as a lecturer at Trinity Theological College in Singapore. He is the coauthor of Through Your Eyes: Dialogues on the Paintings of Bruce Herman as well as the author of the IVP New Testament Commentary on Galatians and The Letter to the Philippians.Cameron J. Anderson (MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art) is an artist, associate director of Upper House, and former executive director of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA). Prior to joining CIVA, he served on the staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for thirty years, most recently as the national director of Graduate and Faculty Ministries. He is the author of The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts and the coeditor of Faith and Vision: Twenty-Five Years of Christians in the Visual Arts.