Painting and Reality Guardini widely-read author on spiritual matters

widely-read author on spiritual matters

The first of Ronald Knox’s three “Slow Motion” collections

before we know why it applies

more abiding meaning and order for his hopes and loves

intermixed with acerbic asides and ironic critiques

Painting and Reality Guardini widely-read author on spiritual mattersBy tienne Gilson Painting and Reality The midpoint of the twentieth century, as with the present day, saw no shortage of scholarship on the subject of art. In Painting and Reality, delivered in 1955 for the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, tienne Gilson makes what is in many ways a unique contribution to that vast body of literature. Addressing the problem of what a philosopher can learn from painting, Gilson makes the center of his perspective