Mormons and the Visual Arts
May 4, 2018[…] two reasons for this phenomenon: a larger than average proportion of citizens very recently from the Old World, where they were in the habit of visiting galleries, and the fact that these citizens were […]
[…] two reasons for this phenomenon: a larger than average proportion of citizens very recently from the Old World, where they were in the habit of visiting galleries, and the fact that these citizens were […]
[…] the Bishop of Woolwich, Dr. John A. T. Robinson. The work attempts to re-establish contact with the world and to relocate the sense of holiness in a secular society. Bishop Robinson’s point of departure […]
[…] If he’d just drop those skeptical blinders long enough to see what’s really going on in this world. . . .” Carmen Maria Stavely, whose exotic given names trailed a deliberately homespun life like […]
[…] about it, I realize that this is what Utah is all about. It’s all about the hidden world—the secret life behind things. I haven’t led a life of crime, but there have been omissions—lots […]
[…] exhausted, often frustrated, but she never once wondered if it was worth it. Of course maybe the world just seemed more hopeful then. Last year an old boyfriend, Mark, who had just turned thirty-five, […]
[…] of sports magazines. “My place is nowhere near as immaculate as this,” I admit. “I’m not the world’s best housekeeper.” He confesses to having a cleaning lady. “I bet I know one difference between […]
[…] he was capable of writing. The scenes he presently looked upon, both inside and outside the bus—his world, the world of now—were an infinity away from the world that had inspired all those cowboy […]
[…] the argument can be formulated as saying: since we find certain characteristics in man (or in the world), we ought to act in a certain way. All such arguments I claim involve a suppressed […]
[…] implicitly, with a predictably positive flourish: In the twentieth century the Church became, in a real sense, world-wide, as its membership spread beyond the isolation of the Intermountain West, and as other historical forces […]
While it is true that there has been no substantial literary tradition among the Mormons, there are indications that one is beginning. For the first time there is a sufficient number of Mormon scholars […]