Watch the Video This talk on the meaning of the Zombie and on the place of monsters in the world was given at the OCA Diocese of the South Annual conference in Chattanooga, TN on July 27, 2017. Read the Essay Source: Orthodox Arts Journal. Reprinted with permission. Click images to enlarge. By Jonathan Pageau As Culture Deconstructs Increasingly … [Read more...] about Zombies, Monsters and a Dog-Headed Saint
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Beauty and Desecration: We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness
Source: City Journal By Roger Scruton At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe the goal of poetry, art, or music, “beauty” would have been the answer. And if you had asked what the point of that was, you would have learned that beauty is a value, as important in its way as truth and goodness, and indeed hardly … [Read more...] about Beauty and Desecration: We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness
Is “Write” Wrong? A Discussion of Icon Terminology
By Mary Lowell Source: Orthodox Arts Journal. Professor John Yiannias, Ph.D., expert in Early Christian and Byzantine Art, University of Pittsburgh, has a bold opinion on the issue of why “write” is the wrong verb to use for making an icon. “While, on the face of it, the subject may appear only tangentially relevant to American Orthodox history, it … [Read more...] about Is “Write” Wrong? A Discussion of Icon Terminology