Jose Arguelles' widely-acclaimed art and cultural history/planetary treatise. Originally published in 1975, this edition includes a new introduction and full-color cover painting that tie the author's past work to his on-going efforts. The exploration of the split between science and art and the author's call for uniting these two aspects into wholeness within our fragile total environment has perhaps more relevance now than at the time the book was first published.
Just excerpt chapters and extensive bibliography
Author(s): Argüelles, José
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Year: 1975
Language: English
Pages: 364
City: Boulder
Tags: Art -- Psychology;Visual perception;Aesthetics;Art -- History;Metaphysics;Apocalytic literature;Ascension of the soul;Mysticism;New Age & Spirituality;Religion & Spirituality;Heaven;Hell;Spiritual life -- New Age movement;Spiritual direction;Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Introduction 1
1 The Dialectical Setting: Human Hemispheres and Planetary Poles 5
2 Art and Consciousness: From Cosmic Myth to Single Vision 16
3 The High Renaissance Vision: The Formation of a Literary Artistic Elite 28
4 The Academization of Single Vision 41
5 The Birth of History 51
6 Revision, Style, and Revolution 63
7 In Search of a Hero: Romantic Quest, Fractured Vision 71
8 William Blake: The Hero as Prophet 81
9 Caricature as Truth: Seeing Beyond Official Truth 93
10 The Receding Landscape: The Seeds of Ecological Consciousness 103
11 Drawing with Light: Photography, Reality, and Dream 116
12 Dream Light on the East: Visions of the Seer-Poets 126
13 Revolution of the Eye, Revolution of the Mind 140
14 The Establishment of the Avant-Garde: The Fugitive and the Real 150
15 The Outcast Vision: Van Gogh and Gauguin 164
16 Abstraction and the Techno- Environment 177
17 The Aesthetic of Madness I 191
18 The Aesthetic of Madness II 204
19 Art and Alchemy: The Great Return 219
20 Split Adam—Split Atom: Art in America 234
21 At the Zero Point: The Art to End All Art 250
22 In the Shadow of the Apocalypse 263
23 Art as Internal Technology: The Return of the Shaman—The Descent of the Goddess 277
24 The Transformative Vision: Catharsis and Individuation 288
APPENDIX A The Development of the Holocene Era 297
APPENDIX B The Ascent of the Jaguar 298
Notes 302
Bibliography 322
Acknowledgements 336
Index 340
