Beginning with the sensibility of the painter, Stephen Newton illuminates the psychic essence of ritual procedure as practiced universally since the dawn of man's self consciousness.By drawing on his own radical experience as an abstract painter, Newton excavates the elemental inner processes that are finally manifest in the wider cultural arena. He locates the common roots of art and religion at the hidden source of timeless ritual and its cathartic transforming power.ART & RITUAL will be of interest not only to students of art, anthropology, and the history of mysticism and religion, but also to those interested in the potential that art has to regenerate an individuals' very existence.

Art & Ritual: A Painter's Journey

Arts & Photography

Newton,Stephen

History & Criticism

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The exhiliration of living altogether openly through experience, be it illuminating or anguishing, is the catalyst for Gabrielli's writing. His work is an acknowledgement: our sensibility in undeniably at one with the poetry of the moment, whether that moment is extended, as with the labours of the hands and the heart, or an abrupt termination of what we have come to know and embrace. The landscape that Gabrielli inhabits is a precarious but ultimately satisfying place.

Eyes of a Man: Selected Prose & Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Gabrielli, Dom

Poetry

A collection of observation and personal reminiscence on the precarious subject of death, written in language that is academic, poetic and sometimes, revealingly, both.

Art & Death: A Collection of Prose & Poetry

Hoboken

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Reichert, Marcus

Mystery

Donald Kuspit's new poems subtly explore our tragic obsession with myth, be it the fallible myth of sublime conscience or the enduring myths of intimate revelation. THE GODS AND OTHER BEINGS comprises five suites of poems and three individual poems. Donald Kuspit, art critic and poet, is Distinguished Professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was previously A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

Gods & Other Beings

Kuspit, Donald

Roy Oxlade has maintained a strong presence in British painting for 40 years and is well known to those for whom painting matters more than establishment recognition. Student of Bomberg, Oxlade took his own path, evolving a form of "real" painting that has been widely influential among artists seeking an essential means of working uncorrupted by the commercial world of fine art. Oxlade's approach is eloquently expressed in his writing. His argument may at times be radical, but his philosophy is compelling, liberating and sane. This book makes available Roy Oxlade's controversial imagery and writing in one publication for the first time.

Art & Instinct Selected Writings of Roy Oxlade

Roy Oxlade

Music and the Spiritual (Composers and Politics in the 20th Century)

Copely, Anthony

Music

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