TY - BOOK AU - Rookmaaker,H.R. TI - Modern art and the death of a culture SN - 0891077995 AV - N6490 .R584 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - Wheaton, Ill., Leicester, England PB - Crossway Books, Apollos KW - Art, Modern KW - 20th century KW - History KW - Art KW - Philosophy KW - Art and society N1 - Includes bibliographical references pages (253-254) and index; The message in the medium : The icon; Beyond history; Painting is more than art alone; Two landscapes; Two world views; -- The roots of contemporary culture : Christianity and culture; Gnosticism and mysticism; a dulaism of nature and grace; the Reformation attitude; Before the Enlightenment; Science; The age of reason; Man in the box; -- The first step to modern art : Nothing but the facts; Landscape and reality; The death of themes; Naturalistic reality; Another initial step to modern art; Idealized escapism; Christian art?; The new naturalism and the bourgeois attitude; Reactions to realism; -- The second step to modern art : On from impressionism; The quest for reality; The quest for a synthesis; A mystic-romantic reaction; -- The last steps to modern art : Expressionism; Developments in Germany; Abstraction; Cubism; The quest for absolutes; The decisive step; Four reactions; -- Into the new era : A new art for new needs; A new art with a new message; The irrationality of the rational; The surrealist protest; Surreality and Christian reality; The real and the horrible; A different twentieth-century response; -- Modern art and the twentieth century revolt : Abstract expressionism; The skeleton of Achilles; Two British artists; Pop and op; Happneings and hippie; Jazz, blues and beat; -- Protest, revolution and the Christian response : The search for humanity; Plastic people; Beyond the material; Drugs and religion; What is normal?; The tragic protest; The permissive society; Apocalypse; Toward a renewal of the church; -- Faith and art : Christianity in art; The role of art; Questions of aesthetics and morals; Norms and structures in art; The Christian artist; The Christian in a changing world ER -