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Taylor & Francis, 2007

Key to Reformation Aesthetics
This book should be on the shelf of every theologian, poet, ideologue, etc. IT explains the image question from Luther and Karlstadt's controversies through Calvinism and up through Eastern Orthodox divagations. The fun part is that the author is a Polish intellectual trapped in the Soviet imperialist system and published this in 1989 originally in Polish. The sly hits the author makes at ...

Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage 1870-1997 (Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture)
Sergiusz Michalski

Reaktion Books, 1998

Public monuments to significant individuals or to political concepts are all too familiar. But the notions underlying them are not so obvious. Sergiusz Michalski traces the history of the public monument from the 1870s, when erecting them became an artistic, political and social pre-occupation, to today when the distinction between public monuments and public sculpture is increasingly blurred. The author shows how, in its golden age – up ...