Modern art and the death of a culture / H.R. Rookmaaker.

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.