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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/105884| Title: | Death of art and spirituality in art |
| Other Titles: | Hide and seek : reflections on faith and culture in dialogue |
| Authors: | Schembri Bonaci, Giuseppe |
| Keywords: | Art, Modern -- 20th century Art, Modern -- 21st century Spirituality in art |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | Moviment Kattoliku Studenti Universitarji |
| Citation: | Schembri Bonaci, G. (2009). Death of Art and Spirituality in Art. In M. Farrugia (Ed.), Hide and Seek: Reflections on Faith and Culture in Dialogue (pp. 53-71). Malta: Moviment Kattoliku Studenti Universitarji. |
| Abstract: | Spirituality sterns from a unique level of self-reflection and self-reflection and self-contemplation that leads to the bizarre status of self-negation. This self-negation creates the Malevichtean "empty" dimension of nothingness from which a novel level of spirituality is born. This is how one may interpret the ancient wisdom wombed within the Narcissus myth. Narcissus is transformed into a flower only after he " ... sees his reflection ... falls in love with it. Uselessly pining for his love, Narcissus wastes away ... His body disappears, and a flower with his name takes its place |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/105884 |
| ISBN: | 9789993207177 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtHa |
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