Finley Eversole

Art and Spiritual Transformation (eBook, ePUB)

The Seven Stages of Death and Rebirth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The primal role of art in awakening and liberating the soul of humanity • Presents a seven-stage journey of transformation moving from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination • Provides a meditation practice to experience the spiritual energy embedded within art • Includes artists Alex Grey, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Walter Gaudnek, and others Art and Spiritual Transformation presents a seven-stage journey from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination that is possible through the world of art. Finley Eversole introduces a meditation practice that moves beyond the visual content of an art form in order to connect with its embedded spiritual energy, allowing the viewer to tap in to the deeper consciousness inherent in the artwork and awaken dormant powers in the depths of the viewer's soul. Examining modern and postmodern artwork from 1945 onward, Eversole reveals the influences of ancient Egypt, India, China, and alchemy on this art. He draws extensively on philosophy, myth and symbolism, literature, and metaphysics to explain the seven stages of spiritual death and rebirth of the soul possible through art: the experience of self-loss, the journey into the underworld, the experience of the dark night of the soul, the conflict with and triumph over evil, the awakening of new life in the depths of being, and the return and reintegration of consciousness on a higher plane of being, resulting finally in ecstasy, transfiguration, illumination, and liberation. To illustrate these stages, Eversole includes works by abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko and modern visionary artists Alex Grey and Ernst Fuchs, among others, to reveal the powerful and liberating forces art contributes to the transformation and evolution of human consciousness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781594779251
• Artikelnr.: 49955499

Autorenporträt

Finley Eversole, Ph.D., has lectured widely on the arts, philosophy, metaphysics, and creativity. He served as executive director of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture from 1966 to 1969, collaborating with Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, W. H. Auden, and Alfred H. Barr Jr., founder of the Museum of Modern Art. He is the author of Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts and lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
A Note on Viewing and Interpreting Art
Part I
The Overview
1. Dreaming the Myth Onward: Art Since 1945
2. The End of the Modern World
3. Creativity and the Extreme Situation
4. The Wisdom of Death
5. Seven Stages of Transformation
Part II
The Art
6. The Broken Center
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
7. The Goddess of Death
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
8. Deathwatch
Tony Smith (1912-1980)
9. Nihilism or Pregnant Night?
Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967)
10. Agony in the Underground
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
11. Evil and the Mystery of Darkness
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
12. The Labyrinthian Search
Walter Gaudnek (1931- )
13. The Dance of Life
Arlé Sklar-Weinstein (1931- )
14. The Way of Regeneration
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)
15. The Spiral or Infinite Journey
Robert Smithson (1938-1973)
16. The Way of the Transfigured Life
Walter Gaudnek (1931- )
Part III
The Creative Promise of the Coming Age
17. Unlikely Heralds of Spiritual Rebirth
18. Spiritual Foundations of the Creative Life
Bibliography
Art Credits
Index