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Art, Belief, Meaning: The Arts and the Restored Gospel
Herman du Toit and Doris R. Dant
Elder M. Russell Ballard once said, “Inspired art speaks in the
language of eternity, teaching things to the heart that the eyes and
ears can never understand.” Students and scholars at Brigham Young
University discuss art in our theology in this new publication entitled
Art, Belief, Meaning. The articles in this volume come from the proceedings of the 2003 Art, Belief, and Meaning symposium.
This volume starts by analyzing some of the challenges of being a
Mormon artist. Examples include Pat Debenham's "Seduction of Our
Gifts," and Tanya Rizzuti's "Imparting One to Another: The Role of
Humility, Charity, and Consecration within an Artistic Community." The
next section deals with the aesthetics of art. Articles in this section
like Grant L. Lunds's "What Makes a Good Image? What Makes a Good
Life?" and Bruce H. Smith's "What Can You Do with an Eclair?" help us
to understand what makes art beautiful. The last section looks at the
role of postmodernism in art. Some articles include "Taking Off Our
Shoes: On Seeing the Other Religiously" by Keith H. Lane, and Nancy
Andruk's "Accountability, Efficacy, and Postmodernism."
Though diverse in content, the articles in Art, Belief and Meaning
express Elder Ballard's assessment that art speaks the "language of
eternity," and promote the symposium's goal of providing an "ongoing
discussion about issues related to art and spirituality."
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