Rina Arya is Reader in Visual Communication at the University of Wolverhampton. Her primary area of research is art theory. She has published articles on Francis Bacon, Georges Bataille, and art and theology. She is the author of Francis Bacon: Painting in a Godless World (2012) and Chila Kumari Burman: Shakti, Sexuality and Bindi Girls (2012) and the editor of Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives (2012). She is currently working on a monograph titled Abjection and Representation, which is forthcoming in 2014.

«As this work demonstrates, the conversation about the spiritual in art is far from over, and this collection of essays will help invigorate that debate in fresh and timely ways.» (Taylor Worley, Theological Book Review 26.1, 2014)

• Contents: Rina Arya: Introduction – Matthew Rowe: The Spiritual and the Aesthetic – Franco Cirulli: Friedrich Schlegel: On Painting and Transcendence – Nicholas Buxton: Creating the Sacred: Artist as Priest, Priest as Artist – Peter M. Doll: Immanence, Transcendence and Liturgical Space in a Changing Church – Michael Evans: Out of Nothing: Painting and Spirituality – David Parker: Outsider Art and Alchemy – Dino Alfier: Necessarily Selfless Action: An Enactment of Simone Weil’s Notion of Attention as a Practice of Detachment through Observational Drawing – Ayla Lepine: Installation as Encounter: Ernesto Neto, Do-Ho Suh and Kathleen Herbert – Judith Legrove: Fragile Visions: Reading and Re-Reading the Work of Geoffrey Clarke – Maxine Walker: Painting the Question: Barnett Newman’s Stations of the Cross – Rina Arya: Painting in a Godless World: Contemplating the Spiritual in Francis Bacon – Harry Lesser: Spirituality and Modernism – David Jasper: The Spiritual in Contemporary Art.

Rina Arya is Reader in Visual Communication at the University of Wolverhampton. Her primary area of research is art theory. She has published articles on Francis Bacon, Georges Bataille, and art and theology. She is the author of Francis Bacon: Painting in a Godless World (2012) and Chila Kumari Burman: Shakti, Sexuality and Bindi Girls (2012) and the editor of Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives (2012). She is currently working on a monograph titled Abjection and Representation, which is forthcoming in 2014.

«As this work demonstrates, the conversation about the spiritual in art is far from over, and this collection of essays will help invigorate that debate in fresh and timely ways.» (Taylor Worley, Theological Book Review 26.1, 2014)

• Contents: Rina Arya: Introduction – Matthew Rowe: The Spiritual and the Aesthetic – Franco Cirulli: Friedrich Schlegel: On Painting and Transcendence – Nicholas Buxton: Creating the Sacred: Artist as Priest, Priest as Artist – Peter M. Doll: Immanence, Transcendence and Liturgical Space in a Changing Church – Michael Evans: Out of Nothing: Painting and Spirituality – David Parker: Outsider Art and Alchemy – Dino Alfier: Necessarily Selfless Action: An Enactment of Simone Weil’s Notion of Attention as a Practice of Detachment through Observational Drawing – Ayla Lepine: Installation as Encounter: Ernesto Neto, Do-Ho Suh and Kathleen Herbert – Judith Legrove: Fragile Visions: Reading and Re-Reading the Work of Geoffrey Clarke – Maxine Walker: Painting the Question: Barnett Newman’s Stations of the Cross – Rina Arya: Painting in a Godless World: Contemplating the Spiritual in Francis Bacon – Harry Lesser: Spirituality and Modernism – David Jasper: The Spiritual in Contemporary Art.

Rina Arya is Reader in Visual Communication at the University of Wolverhampton. Her primary area of research is art theory. She has published articles on Francis Bacon, Georges Bataille, and art and theology. She is the author of Francis Bacon: Painting in a Godless World (2012) and Chila Kumari Burman: Shakti, Sexuality and Bindi Girls (2012) and the editor of Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives (2012). She is currently working on a monograph titled Abjection and Representation, which is forthcoming in 2014.

«As this work demonstrates, the conversation about the spiritual in art is far from over, and this collection of essays will help invigorate that debate in fresh and timely ways.» (Taylor Worley, Theological Book Review 26.1, 2014)

• Contents: Rina Arya: Introduction – Matthew Rowe: The Spiritual and the Aesthetic – Franco Cirulli: Friedrich Schlegel: On Painting and Transcendence – Nicholas Buxton: Creating the Sacred: Artist as Priest, Priest as Artist – Peter M. Doll: Immanence, Transcendence and Liturgical Space in a Changing Church – Michael Evans: Out of Nothing: Painting and Spirituality – David Parker: Outsider Art and Alchemy – Dino Alfier: Necessarily Selfless Action: An Enactment of Simone Weil’s Notion of Attention as a Practice of Detachment through Observational Drawing – Ayla Lepine: Installation as Encounter: Ernesto Neto, Do-Ho Suh and Kathleen Herbert – Judith Legrove: Fragile Visions: Reading and Re-Reading the Work of Geoffrey Clarke – Maxine Walker: Painting the Question: Barnett Newman’s Stations of the Cross – Rina Arya: Painting in a Godless World: Contemplating the Spiritual in Francis Bacon – Harry Lesser: Spirituality and Modernism – David Jasper: The Spiritual in Contemporary Art.