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Subjects(s):
Art
Spiritual Life
Tradition
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Price: $19.95
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ISBN: 978-1-933316-68-0
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Book Size: 6 × 9
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# of Pages: 144
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Language: English
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Description
This book is a compilation of Brian Keeble’s insightful essays dealing with the oft-neglected relationship between God and work, spirituality and art, as well as contemplation and action. In the midst of the fast-paced modern world, it addresses the question, “how can work become a form of prayer?” Keeble focuses on artists and craftsmen such as poet and engraver William Blake, calligrapher Edward Johnston, sculptor Eric Gill, and key figures of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain.
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This book is a compilation of Brian Keeble’s insightful essays dealing with the oft-neglected relationship between God and work, spirituality and art, as well as contemplation and action. In the midst of the fast-paced modern world, it addresses the question, “how can work become a form of prayer?” Keeble focuses on artists and craftsmen such as poet and engraver William Blake, calligrapher Edward Johnston, sculptor Eric Gill, and key figures of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain.
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Brian Keeble is a writer and editor who has long been devoted to the promulgation of the traditional arts. His best-known book is Art: For Whom and For What? Mr. Keeble is the founder of Golgonooza Press and a co-founder of Temenos Academy, which is sponsored by The Prince's Foundation of HRH The Prince of Wales. The Temenos Academy is a teaching organization dedicated to the same central idea that had inspired the earlier Temenos Review, a journal devoted to the arts of the imagination.
Mr. Keeble has contributed the following to World Wisdom books:
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Wendell Berry is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, professor of English, and poet. The New York Times has called Berry the "prophet of rural America." Berry is the author of more than 30 books of essays, poetry and novels. He has worked a farm in Henry County, Kentucky since 1965. He has received numerous awards for his work, including an award from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and letters in 1971, and most recently, the T. S. Eliot Award.
World Wisdom has included essays by Wendell Berry in the following publications:
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"Toward the end of this stimulating collection, Brian Keeble observes that 'Only universal truths can satisfy the needs of that condition that is the mental turmoil and spiritual demoralization of modern man. Indeed, one might ask whether the necessity for such a metaphysical perspective is bound to give rise to the articulation of the required truths.' The book as a whole shows how these truths have in fact been articulated, throughout the course of the twentieth century, by a series of remarkable makers and thinkers: A. K. Coomaraswamy, W. R. Lethaby, Edward Johnston, Eric Gill, Frithjof Schuon.…Characteristically, Keeble's interest in his subjects is not merely biographical: he is concerned with the witness that they bear to an understanding of beauty and craftsmanship which is rooted in eternity, and universal in its significance. God and Work is accordingly a natural sequel to the author's anthology Every Man An Artist: Readings in the Traditional Philosophy of Art (2005; reviewed in TAR 9). As Wendell Berry states in the foreword, this book 'brings again into view the possibility of religion practicable in work, and work compatible with worship and wholly meant'."
—Temenos Review
“Brian Keeble's God & Work: Aspects of Art And Tradition (9781933316680, $19.95) surveys religion, prayer, and provides essays connecting work to spirituality. From connections between art and labor to the fruits resulting from dream states, God & Work is a fine spiritual and literary consideration. ”
—The Bookwatch Review
In his Foreword to this important book, Wendell Berry gets to the heart of the matter when he writes: “By putting ‘God’ and ‘work’ in the same title—in, so to speak, the same breath—Mr. Keeble challenges the modern orthodoxy, which has done its best to keep those terms separate…He brings again into view the possibility of religion practicable in work, and work compatible with worship and wholly meant.”
…These essays on Art and Tradition are richly rewarding and are rooted in a vision that has profound implications for our world and our individual lives.
— Sacred Web, from a review by M. Ali Lakhani
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Foreword
Preface
1. A. K. Coomaraswamy and the True Art of Living
2. W. R. Lethaby on Art and Labor
3. Archetype as Letterform: The “Dream” of Edward Johnston
4. Eric Gill’s Holy Tradition of Working
5. Of Art and Skill
6. Thoughts on Reading Frithjof Schuon’s Writings on Art
7. William Blake: Art as Divine Vision
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
Biographical Notes
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