PRACTICAL ECUMENISM IN SACRED ART AND ARCHITECTURE � INCORPORATION AND SYNTHESIS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Uscinowicz
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Art ◽  
Art And Architecture

The Sacred Art of Counter-Conquest

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-82
Author(s):  
Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Sacred Art ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Christian Art ◽  
Religious Cultures ◽  
Material Religion ◽  
Art And Architecture

From works of monumental architecture to vernacular expressions of “folk” religion, objects of material religion secure and orient lived faith in Latin America. Sacred power in Latin America emanates from a particular web of connection between image, altar, and chapel. These material manifestations of the sacred reflect the pain and paradox of their colonial origins and thus must be contextualized and historicized in relation to the structures of colonial power and domination that define the context of their creation. This chapter traces the historical emergence of Latin American Christian material religious cultures in the circumstance of indigenous and African struggle and survival. A tremendous ritual, spiritual, and cultural labor was required to imbue adopted artistic forms, and the imposed Christian religion itself, with sacred meaning and power. This act of redemption was, by necessity, a labor of contraconquista, the sacred art of counter-conquest. Lay Catholic devotional labor functions to create continuity between monumental and vernacular works of Christian art and architecture, lending coherence to seemingly disparate forms.

scholarly journals Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 28-47
Author(s):  
Thu Huong Thi Vu ◽  
Tuan Dung Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Political Conflict ◽  
Sacred Art ◽  
Sacred Architecture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Religious Architecture ◽  
The North ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Art And Architecture

In the 16th century, the first Spanish and Portuguese Dominican missionaries arrived in Southeast Asia, included Vietnam, but only after the first decades of the seventeenth century, Christianity began to take hold and lived through different episodes of the Proclamation of the Christian faith: first it was tolerated and then abandoned by the dynasties, supported by the colonialists, declined in the north by the communists, it expanded in the south under the Republic of Vietnam and stabilized until now after the reunification of the country followed by a long breakage due to political change. Along with this story, sacred architecture was interpreted in various ways to define identities in religious life and faith. However, the most difficult period of religious architecture is not only in the political conflict of the past, but also until now, the time of the economic boom. The change of values as well as the aesthetic system make sacred art and architecture remain a giant wheel stuck in mud.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF THE PROPORTION THEORY TO FORM DESIGN1

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-122
Author(s):  
Vera de Spinadel
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Roman Art ◽  
Harmonic Forms ◽  
Sacred Art ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Proportion Theory ◽  
Art And Architecture

Throughout the evolution of human culture, starting from the early Prehistory, following with the sacred art of Egypt, India, China, Islam and other traditional civilizations, the designers had tried to produce harmonic forms that simultaneously were particularly beautiful. This objective dominated Greek and Roman art and Architecture, persisting in the movements of the Gothic Middle Ages and later on, in the Renaissance.

scholarly journals SPANNING TRADITION AND MODERNITY – SOME THOUGTS PROMPTED BY THE CHURCH BUILDINGS COMPLEX LOCATED IN KRAKÓW – NOWA HUTA

space&FORM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (48) ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Jan Kurek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
World War ◽  
Sacred Art ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
New Churches ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
Nowa Huta ◽  
The Church

Sacred buildings in Poland in the 20th century are characterized by a great variety of forms – although the sacred world is by its nature conservative. Different conditions should be taken into account when designing a church. In the sphere of sacred art and architecture one should rationally draw from the treasury of the new and the old. After World War II over 3,500 new churches were built in Poland, including the church in Nowa Huta in Krakow. This realization is an attempt to reconcile traditional forms with modernity and with the recommendations of the Second Vatican Council.

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