 | Paul Tillich - Philosophy - 1959 - 228 pages
...points to a self-interpretation of man, thus answering the question of the ultimate meaning of life. Whatever the subject matter which an artist chooses,...ultimate concern of a human group or period is manifest. It is one of the most fascinating tasks to decipher the religious meaning of styles of the past such... | |
 | Jeremy Begbie - Religion - 1991 - 318 pages
...artist's work will to some degree display his ultimate concern and that of his culture: the artist "cannot help but betray by his style his own ultimate...concern, as well as that of his group, and his period in every style the ultimate concern of a human group is manifest."5 Tillich expands on this in his... | |
 | Jon Michael Spencer - African Americans - 1996 - 180 pages
...points to a selfinterpretation of man, thus answering the question of the ultimate meaning of life. Whatever the subject matter which an artist chooses,...concern, as well as that of his group, and his period. . . . And in every style the ultimate concern of a human group or period is manifest. It is one of... | |
 | Earle J. Coleman - Religion - 1998 - 264 pages
...demonstrable truth. Often, Tillich's assertions are simply too broad, as when he says of the artist, "He cannot escape religion even if he rejects religion,...the ultimate concern of a human group or period is manifest."28 Such generalizations proceed from a singular view of art, but artists sometimes preoccupy... | |
 | Robert Detweiler, David Jasper - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 212 pages
...points to a self-interpretation of man, thus answering the question of the ultimate meaning of life. Whatever the subject matter which an artist chooses,...ultimate concern of a human group or period is manifest. It is one of the most fascinating tasks to decipher the religious meaning of styles of the past such... | |
 | Richard Viladesau - Art - 2000 - 286 pages
...adequacy."7 1n particular, art unconsciously expresses the ultimate concern of its society: The artist "cannot help but betray by his style his own ultimate...concern, as well as that of his group, and his period... in every style the ultimate concern of a human group is manifest. """ As Nicholas Wolterstorff points... | |
 | Alex García-Rivera - Art - 2003 - 164 pages
...answering the question of the meaning of life. Whatever the subject-matter which an artist chooses ... he cannot help but betray by his style his own ultimate...concern as well as that of his group, and his period." 27 Tillich's great insight into the theological dimension of art is that a work of art reveals not... | |
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Whatever the subject matter which an artist chooses, however strong or weak his artistic form, he cannot help but betray by his style his own ultimate concern, as well as that of his group, and his period. 