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Beinhaltet den Namen: Cheney Sheldon

Werke von Sheldon Cheney

The story of modern art (1937) 69 Exemplare
Men Who Have Walked With God (1948) 41 Exemplare
A primer of modern art (1923) 35 Exemplare
A new World history of art (1956) 28 Exemplare
Expressionism in Art (1855) 24 Exemplare
The new world architecture (1930) 13 Exemplare
Stage Decoration (1972) 2 Exemplare

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The Art of the Dance (1928) — Einführung — 15 Exemplare
Readings on Sophocles (1996) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare

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Geburtstag
1886-06-29
Todestag
1980-10-10
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
USA (birth)
Wohnorte
Berkeley, California, USA
New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA
Berufe
editor
author
art historian
theater critic
Kurzbiographie
founded the Theatre Arts Magazine in 1916 and edited it until 1921

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Murtra | Sep 18, 2020 |
367. A Primer of Modern Art, by Sheldon Cheney (read 5 Feb 1950) I read this in 1950 when a friend was urging me to paint something. But I did not. I don't know what that says about the book.
 
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Schmerguls | Oct 22, 2013 |
When I am asked to recommend books from my own personal library, this is often the first one I mention. Written by an art critic (not the Cheney family now in the news!), published at the end of his career, in 1945, it must have been a labor of love. It provides a clear and engrossing account of the lives, visions, and influence of mystics from Lao Tsu and Buddha to Jacob Boehme and William Blake--and what a powerful account of each one.

I have been a reader of Blake and Blake criticism for almost fifty years, and I have not read a clearer, nor certainly a more concise, essay on Blake as a Christian visionary. Most modern critics emphasize the "visionary," but not the "Christian." By the way, Blake also would have preferred the term "visionary" to "mystic" and otherwise would have used much less conventional religious terminology, but Cheney recaptures the Anabaptist, Moravian, and early Methodist background of Blake's own family.

Cheney's ecumenicism, however, is one of the striking features of this book, focusing also on Pythagoras and Plato, Plotinus, St. Bernard, St. Francis of Asissi, Meister Eckhardt, and Brother Laurence. (I wish it gave more attention to "women who walked with God," for after all this was written in the 1940s; he mentions a few prominently but devotes no single chapter to a woman mystic.) I happened on this book quite by accident at a used book store, though I understand that it is still in print. I was attracted simply by the essay on Blake, but it gave me so much more that I read it through twice almost immediately. I kept wishing this book had been brought to my attention as a young reader, but maybe I became more ready for its wisdom as a "senior citizen."
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