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God's Good Order and the Artist's Patterns

Professor Ben Quash · Gresham College

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About

For centuries of western history, the beauty of art was conceived as a response to, and a reflection of, the cosmic artistry of a good God, who patterned all things well. Aesthetic order was therefore a manifestation of cosmic order, and beauty an expression of the good providence of a benevolent God. In the modern period patterns have seemed like the consoling creations of people worried that they live at the mercy of an arbitrary universe. What do patterns in art (pre-modern and then modern) tell us about our changing perspectives on the world we live in?

The talk

  1. God's Good Order and the Artist's Patterns 2013-03-14 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Ben Quash
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Religion, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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