The Catholic Church and Art, by Ralph Adams Cram
Book details
- Title
- The Catholic Church and Art, by Ralph Adams Cram
- Author
- Ralph Adams Cram
- Publication year listed
- 1929
- Format
- Public domain eBook
- Reading access
- Free online reader; no registration required
- Source record
- View on Archive.org
About this book
The Catholic Church and Art, by Ralph Adams Cram
Author: Ralph Adams Cram
Year: 1929
The author of this powerful essay has accomplished three things. He has put before the reader a sketch of the process of art - especially architecturally - under the influence of the Catholic Church and of that Pagan antiquity in the maturity of which the Catholic Church arose. Next he has postulated or affirmed the effect of the faith in preserving and developing the expression of beauty. Lastly, and perhaps most valuable, he has asserted in a fashion more definite and critical than I can remember to have seen elsewhere the prime fact of our present chaos on the æsthetic side; to wit, that it has not only abandoned, but deliberately turned enemy to, beauty: that it is making in so-called art, and especially in architecture, for the deliberate cultivation of the hideous. - from the Preface It has the Nihil Obstat of Father Arthur J Scanlan, S.T.D., Censor Librorum; and the Imprimatur of Cardinal Patrick Joseph Hayes, Archdiocese of New York, New York, 11 May 1929.