Product Overview
This book introduces a new way for thinking about, creating, and viewing art. Rudolf Steiner saw his task as the renewal of the lost unity of science, the arts, and religion; thus, he created a new, cognitive scientific and religious art in anthroposophy. The implications of his act recognized by such diverse artists as Wassily Kandinsky and Joseph Beuys are only now coming fully to light.
In his thorough introduction of more than a hundred pages, Michael Howard takes readers through these thought-provoking chapters:
- Is Art Dead?
- To Muse or Amuse
- Artistic Activity As Spiritual Activity
- The Representative of Humanity
- Beauty, Creativity, and Metamorphosis
- New Directions in Art
- The Aesthetics of Goethes Worldview
- The Spiritual Being of Art
- Buildings Will Speak
- The Sense Organs and Aesthetic Experience
- The Two Sources of Art
- The Building at Dornach
- The Supersensible Origin of the Arts
- Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
- Christ, Ahriman, and Lucifer
- Plus a bibliography and index
