Encounters with Art

by Dorothea Blom

Overview

Out of sheer desperation, the sensitive and reflective person of the Twentieth Century must dare to ask for a new way of seeing. Not only for himself, but for the sake of his world, he must recover and liberate the languages of spirit. The image arts always have been and always will be the non-verbal language of spirit, the silent educator of soul.

More often than not, the art specialist cannot help us. As a Bible scholar may be tempted to interpret the Bible endlessly without making room for transforming encounter with any part of it, so too with the specialist in art. Nor can those who deify art help us. Art is no more and no less than a language of spirit.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161792407
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	08/24/2018
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #128
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	187 KB

About the Author

Dorothea Blom has written and lectured for many years in art-related fields. In the summer of 1962, she gave a course at Pendle Hill on encountering art. For the past eight years she has taught at the Pleasantville Adult School in New York and conducted museum excursions to the great museums on the East Coast. Her husband, Christian Blom, designs and makes furniture. A Friend, she has been chairman of the Advancement Committee and clerk of the Committee on Ministry and Counsel at Purchase Friends Meeting in New York. Readers will find in this pamphlet an expression of Dorothea Blom’s three great interests: art, the Jungian concept of growth, and spiritual life.