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To: iconoclast; B Knotts

The millenial lack of great art, literature, music....more fallout from secularism.

The artists that created longago church art were surely informed by the prevalent religious culture of the time.


47 posted on 04/08/2005 10:29:32 AM PDT by Liz (One of it's most compelling tenets is Catholicism's acknowledgement of individual free will.)
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To: Liz
My area (of interest, not profession, unfortunately) is manuscript art / calligraphy. Christian Iconography is an incredibly rich visual vocabulary, especially when one considers the low degree of literacy and the high degree of church attendance over the first 1,500 years of the Church.

When I was stationed in Korea our Chaplain asked me to give a guest lecture regarding the signs and symbols of Christian art. As the class was for GI's I started by presenting them with the Hangul word for "Stop", in plain black letters on a white background. None of them knew what it was, and I established that, w/ regards to Hangul, they were essentially illiterate. As soon as the word was placed in white letters on a red octagon, they knew what it meant...not only did they know what it stood for, but I advised that that simple image was powerful enough that, given a car, it would evoke an internalized physical response...Just imagine the power of images over an entire population that is generally illiterate!!

48 posted on 04/08/2005 10:41:19 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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