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Off-modern Catholic aesthetics

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"Why did Catholic actors embrace modernist aesthetics? And conversely, why did modernist architects and artists embrace pre-modern ideas to look to the future? Off-Modern Catholicism explores the surprising ways in which Catholic intellectuals, faced with exile during World War II, reconfigured their thought to promote modernist buildings and paintings in France and America. By drawing on the life and work of Marie-Alain Couturier, Marcel Breuer, Dominique de Menil, and Jean Labatut, you will be invited to explore a "detour into the unexplored potentials of the modern project" via an encounter between two cultural forces often considered antithetical to each other"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Antinomies of art and theology. Marie-Alain Couturier and the contradictions of modern sacred culture -- Between mysticism and industry : the Bauhaus diaspora, the Benedictines and the ambiguities of architectural symbolism -- Catholic metaphorology. Dominique de Menil and the role of conversion in aesthetic education -- Recast eyes. Jean Labatut and the concept of crisis in post-World War II architectural education -- Epilogue : disentangling the semantic knot between a secular infinite and a Catholic eternal.

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O'Connor Perks, Samuel. Off-modern Catholic aesthetics

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:17:39.152579+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23971941

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description language: eng
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