Arts and Culture Class Links

Links -- These links are articles, writings, etc. that I came across during preparation for the class. Some are more helpful than others, but in light of many requests of previous years classes, these general links are for your perusal.

SETTING THE CONTEXT

THE POWER OF IDEAS

The work of Mortimer J. Alder...home of the Great Books
Civilizations Ideas: One person's attempt to list the best and worst ideas of civilization
The Radical Academy: Brush up your philosophy
Quotes about ideas
More Quotes

THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTY

BeautyWorlds.com
a wide-ranging site on the culture of beauty
Beauty
Aesthetics in Scripture and Nature

CONSTRUCTING REALITY

The Social Construction of Reality-- Assumptions: Communications Studies Program...Brock University
Post-Modern Counselling Assumptions and Christianity: from a website of Christian Essays, one writer's brief critique of Postmodern Narrative Therapy. An accessible intro. by Nathan Beel
The Narrative Emergence of Identity: Strong example of postmodern narrative identity construction with an emphasis in the cultural factors. Dr. Mark R. Gover... Michigan State University
Why Write Fiction: The Power of Storytelling: Narrative Construction after 9/11...from the LA Times, 11/11/01, By Lynn Smith:
Notes on the Construction of Reality in TV News Programmes: by Daniel Chandler
The Westminster Confession of Faith

GLORY

Glory A general discussion of both 'Kabod' and 'Doxa'
Glory Glory defined...from Easton's Bible Dictionary
Kabod Scriptures using 'kabod'...from Strong's Hebrew Concordance
Doxa ...from the New Testament Greek Lexicon
Doxa Scriptures using 'doxa'...from Strong's Greek Concordance
The Shekinah Glory Exploration of Skekinah and it's linguistic connections with Jesus.
The Shekinah An indepth look at Shekinah Glory
The Weight of Glory A meditation on the call of glory...this is not the C.S. Lewis sermon.

PROMETHEUS

Prometheus...a few links

THE GOOD

Dallas Willard on the Moral "Good"

DALE CHIHULY

Dale Chihuly's Website
Dale Chihuly links on the internet Artcyclopedia
Is it okay to hate Dale Chihuly? on the other hand...

DEFINING THE QUESTIONS

1. What is the Relationship of the Imagination to the Soul?

General links

Imagination
From the Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
Imagination
From the Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
Quotes on Imagination

Philosophy

Ideas on Imagination
A brief overview of basic philosophical ideas on imagination
Imagination and Literature
An overview that contains some new faces...
Text for Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Allegory of the Cave
Simone Weil's lecture on Plato's famous allegory
Longinus' On The Sublime
The famous treatise...
"The Sublime" in History
from Grove Online Dictionary of Art
Hume and Kant: Summary and Comparison
excellent overview....

Image

Religious Symbol and Spirituality in an Electronic Age
Richard Woods, Spirituality Today
Imagination,Mental Imagery,Consciousness, and Cognition: Scientific, Philosophical and Historical Approaches.
comprehensive site by Nigel J.T. Thomas, Ph.D. Impressive and helpful.
Introduction to Mental Images
A Georgia philosopher's webpage on mental images.

"Yetser"

Yetser

Yetser -- IMAGINATION

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Imagination

Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind

Imagination and Memory

Memory
A brief overview of theories of memory.

Imagination and Medicine

Candace Pert info and links
The Mind-Body Medical Institute
Storytelling is Crucial to the Healing of Human Suffering
by Larry Burk - The Noosphere / Commentary - The Chronicle - 9/19/97

ART

Functional Art

The Classical Concept of Art -- TECHNE
The Classical Concept of Memesis
Functionalism in art and architecture
a basic definition...
Founders Of The Arts & Crafts Movement 1870 - 1900
links to writings of William Morris and his contemporaries...
The William Morris Society
Bauhaus Design Ideals
Classical (music) vs. Film (music) Revisited
Article discussing music as functional art...

Fine Art

Aesthetics
a simple definition
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
The Metaphor Project
the seriousness of metaphor on the political stage...
Metaphor

CULTURE

MathewArnold's Culture and Anarchy
On what constitutes high art (or culture)
Christianity and Culture: God's Double Sovereignty
By Gene Edward Veith
What is Culture?
An examination of "culture"...some good stuff, steeped in relativism.
Defining Multicultural Education
Multiculturalism defined in the context of education. Pretty clear.
Global Calendar
Cultural Landscapes from around the World
Great resource comparing folk culture and popular culture around the world.
Cultural Relativism
A brief explanation of strengths and weaknesses
Comments on Cultural Relativism
a brief discussion of the basic defintion
The Challenge of Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
from the United Nations

Christianity and Culture

by J. Gresham Machen, from the Princeton Review, 1913

Christianity and Culture Web Site

"dedicated to the exploration of all aspects of the relationship between Christianity and culture."

Christianity & Culture: God's Double Sovereignty

Dr. Gene Edward Veith on the Two Kingdoms

Cultural Issues for the Christian Traveler

THE POSSIBLE ANSWERS

THE BIBLICAL ANSWER

What is a human being?

IMAGO DEI

IMAGE Study ...International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

SOUL

Soul Commentary on Biblical concept of Soul
What is soul? A non-biblical view of soul...in the spirit of the times.

BODY

The Human Body and Spiritual Growth
Dallas Willard

THE CHURCH'S ANSWER HISTORICALLY

The Theatre.
Catholic Encyclopedia article about the Catholic Church's historical attitude toward the theatre.
Tertullian's "THE SHOWS"
The Christian Catacombs of Rome
St. Simeon Stylites sitting on top of the world...
St. Simeon Stylites more on this pole sitter...
A Course in Christian Imagination from the University of Toronto...great material on the visual development of art in the church
Art and Liturgy: The Splendor of Faith article
The Essence of Orthodox Iconography
Icons Explained A Guide to Byzantine Icons, Frescoes, and Mosaics on the Internet
Russian Icon Painting

THE ARTIST'S ANSWER (AESTHETICS)

GENERAL LINKS:

Beauty entry from the Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Aesthetics a basic intro to the idea of Aethetics
Aesthetics (Philosophy of Beauty) from a dentist's office
A Mathmetician's Aesthetics from a math guy's perspective
The Golden Ratio and Aesthetics
The Golden Proportion
a dentist explaining the golden proportion's broad application...

The Lindisfarne Gospels from the 7th century

THE MIDDLE AGES:

Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia
The great 6th c. basilica of Constantinople
Holy Icons: Theology in Color
Great article on meaning and use of icons
Iconoclasm
Images of St. Denis Abbey

Peter Paul Rubens on the Internet
Artcyclopedia's listings for Rubens

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Theory of Aesthetics and Teleology (The Critique of Judgment)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Romantic Painters

Artcyclopedia's listings of Romantic Painters...most of what you need will be here.

J.M.W. Turner

Classy Website on Turner's life and work.

MODERNISM, FORMALISM

Modernism
Online gallery from various Modernist movements...
Modernism
basic information from Widipedia.com...
Modernism
One more site on the basics of Modernism...

POSTMODERNISM

Brian McLaren's "Why I Still Use the Word Postmodern"
from Emergent Village...
What Significance has "Postmodernism" for Christian Faith?
Dallas Williard...
Postmodernism
article on the basic ideas behind postmodernism...
The Postmodern Generator
one of my favorite fun things on the Web...
Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
Extensive links to Postmodern writings by a Professor of Education at Univ. of Col. at Denver
Postmodernism and Truth
good article arguing for the truth of things...
Gallery Reviews from Around New York
a wonderfully postmodern web site about art history and postmodernism...huge resource...
ALTX Online Network
links to postmodern writing and art...

THE CULTURAL RESULTS

LITERACY

Facts on Illiteracy in America

FILM

REVIEW: Worldview in the Arena
Chuck Colson's take on "Gladiator"

ARTICLE: Moral and Spiritual Trends in 'Hollywood Babylon'

HIGH CULTURE

High Culture Meets Trash TV
Soviet high culture overrun by pop culture.
The Use Value of High Culture
A clear statement of relativism as it relates to culture. Read this.

FOLK CULTURE

American Folk Life Center -- The Library of Congress
AmericanFolk.com
Example of a modern folk culture website
African Culture and Aesthetics
from the Kennedy Center
African Arts and Culture Links
compiled by Cora Agatucci, Professor of English at Central Oregon Community College
Irish Folk Culture Site
Just one of many
Romanian Folk Culture