The Artist"s Bookshelf

[Virginia Wieringa]

This is a list of books Pete shared with us at the Monday meeting.

The Artist’s Bookshelf
Peter Gordon

Art: Art & Fear-Ted Orland
The View From the StudioDoor-Ted Orland
The End of Art-Donald Kuspit
Anything by James Elkins-recommended: The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
Why Art Cannot Be Taught
Introduction to Aesthetics-Anne Sheppard
The Creators-Daniel Boorstein
Art & Religion:
And It Was Good- Ned Busterd, editor
Scribbles in the Sand-Michael Card
Rainbows for the Fallen World-Calvin Seerveld
Refractions-Makoto Fujimura
Imagine-Steve Turner
Anything by Jeremy Begbie
Anything by William Dyrness-recommended: Roualt
Visual Faith
Senses of the Spirit
Modern Art and the Death of a Culture-Hans Rookmaker
Art & Soul- IVP Press
Religion/Theology:
Anything by Abraham Heschel-recommended: I Asked for Wonder, The Sabbath, Man in Search of God, The Prophets
Why Faith Matters-David Wolpe
The Works of C.S. Lewis-recommended: Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters
Weight of Glory
The Idea of the Holy-Rudolf Otto
Knowing God-J.I. Packer
The works of Michael Card-recommended: Parable of Joy, A Violent Grace
Echoes of His Presence-Ray Vander Laan
The Burning Word-Judith Kunst
Sacred and Profane Beauty: the Holy in Art-Gerardus van der Leeuw
Miscellaneous:
The works of Oliver Sacks-recommended: Island of the Colorblind, Seeing Voices,
Anthropologist on Mars
The poetry of Rainier Maria Rilke
The poetry of Scott Cairns
The works of Chaim Potok-recommended: My Name is Asher Lev, The Gift of Asher Lev
Wanderings
The works of Shusako Endo-recommended: Silence, The Final Martyrs

Some of these may be out of print, but Baker Book House on East Paris has a great used section where one might get lucky. Some may also be available through our local public libraries Grand Rapids Public Library (grpl.org) or Kent District Library (kdl.org), or the newest public library resource the Michigan E-Library (mel.org).

[Virginia Wieringa]

This came from our friend Marion in Ann Arbor:
I saw a reference to Rilke's poems and wanted to mention that a good friend of our, Annemarie Kidder (Presbyterian Minister) has recently translated his work in "Book of Hours", Northwestern U. Annemarie is a great supporter of the arts.

Also, for a good book on apologetics, read Tim Keller's "A Reason for God" Dutton Press.

Blessings,

Marion S. Powers

[Peter Gordon]

There are a lot of great books out there, these are some that I've read that have inspired me. The titles listed here are titles I turn to again and again.

I think the most important thing is to read, and even to read things you might not necessarily agree with, to stimulate the imagination and jump start the creativity.