Modern art and the death of a culture / H.R. Rookmaaker. [print]

The message in the medium : The icon; -- Beyond history; -- Painting is more than art alone; -- Two landscapes; -- Two world views -- The roots of contemporary culture : Christianity and culture; -- Gnosticism and mysticism; -- A dulaism of nature and grace; -- The Reformation attitude; -- Before the Enlightenment; -- Science; -- The age of reason; -- Man in the box -- The first step to modern art : Nothing but the facts; -- Landscape and reality; -- The death of themes; -- Naturalistic reality; -- Another initial step to modern art; -- Idealized escapism; -- Christian art?; -- The new naturalism and the bourgeois attitude; -- Reactions to realism -- The second step to modern art : On from impressionism; -- The quest for reality; -- The quest for a synthesis; -- A mystic-romantic reaction -- The last steps to modern art : Expressionism; -- Developments in Germany; -- Abstraction; -- Cubism; -- The quest for absolutes; -- The decisive step; -- Four reactions -- Into the new era : A new art for new needs; -- A new art with a new message; -- The irrationality of the rational; -- The surrealist protest; -- Surreality and Christian reality; -- The real and the horrible; -- A different twentieth-century response -- Modern art and the twentieth century revolt : Abstract expressionism; -- The skeleton of Achilles; -- Two British artists; -- Pop and op; -- Happenings and hippie; -- Jazz, blues and beat -- Protest, revolution and the Christian response : The search for humanity; -- Plastic people; -- Beyond the material; -- Drugs and religion; -- What is normal?; -- The tragic protest; -- The permissive society; -- Apocalypse; -- Toward a renewal of the church -- Faith and art : Christianity in art; -- The role of art; -- Questions of aesthetics and morals; -- Norms and structures in art; -- The Christian artist; -- The Christian in a changing world.

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