J Sage Elwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1061645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Sage Elwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Sage |
| FAMILY NAME | Elwell |
| SIGNATURE | ELWELL J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Christian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Beautiful Failure
Jim Harvey was the artist who created the Brillo box that Andy Warhol copied and made famous. Warhol's Brillo Boxes changed the course of art history and the entire field of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Meanwhile, Jim Harvey died a failed second-generation Abstract Expressionist. To his death, Harvey refused to accept that his Brillo box was a work of art. However, the theory-the story-that was woven about Warhol's Brillo Boxes transform…
Eat, Shit, Scar
By leveraging two metaphors central to discussions around the digitization of sacred texts—“books are bodies” and “translation is feeding”—this essay contends that the translation of analog sacred texts into digital formats is a metaphorical gastrointestinal process. This essay accomplishes this through the application of actor-network theory. Central to actor-network theory is the claim that an object, like a book, is the product of a complex ne…
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The Metaphor of Religion and Art
This essay takes up the challenge of unpacking the nature of what Schleiermacher called the “inner affinity” between religion and art. Drawing on the work of philosophers of art such as Susanne Langer and Arthur Danto, and philosophers of religion like Loyal Rue and David Tracy, I suggest that religion and art have at their core a comparable metaphorical structure that lends them this common communion. From this shared structure, I deduce five pr…
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Reflections from the Bottom of a Brillo Box
This article asks after the theological import of the two end of art theses proposed by Arthur Danto and Donald Kuspit respectively. In tribute to the coming thirtieth anniversary of Arthur Danto’s essay “The End of Art” and the tenth anniversary of Donald Kuspit’s book The End of Art , I take up here their respective theories in an attempt to go beyond the surface of their ideas and to ask after the depth of the end(s) of art. Their theses point…
Halos and Avatars
Intermedia
Essay| April 01 2006 Intermedia: Forty Years on and Beyond J. Sage Elwell J. Sage Elwell J. Sage Elwell is currently completing a dissertation on theology of culture and contemporary art at the University of Iowa. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2006) 33 (5): 25–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2006.33.5.25 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer R…
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Intermedia
Essay| April 01 2006 Intermedia: Forty Years on and Beyond J. Sage Elwell J. Sage Elwell J. Sage Elwell is currently completing a dissertation on theology of culture and contemporary art at the University of Iowa. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2006) 33 (5): 25–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2006.33.5.25 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer R…
Halos and Avatars
Reflections from the Bottom of a Brillo Box
This article asks after the theological import of the two end of art theses proposed by Arthur Danto and Donald Kuspit respectively. In tribute to the coming thirtieth anniversary of Arthur Danto’s essay “The End of Art” and the tenth anniversary of Donald Kuspit’s book The End of Art , I take up here their respective theories in an attempt to go beyond the surface of their ideas and to ask after the depth of the end(s) of art. Their theses point…
Online Resources
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The Metaphor of Religion and Art
This essay takes up the challenge of unpacking the nature of what Schleiermacher called the “inner affinity” between religion and art. Drawing on the work of philosophers of art such as Susanne Langer and Arthur Danto, and philosophers of religion like Loyal Rue and David Tracy, I suggest that religion and art have at their core a comparable metaphorical structure that lends them this common communion. From this shared structure, I deduce five pr…
Online Resources
Online Resources
Eat, Shit, Scar
By leveraging two metaphors central to discussions around the digitization of sacred texts—“books are bodies” and “translation is feeding”—this essay contends that the translation of analog sacred texts into digital formats is a metaphorical gastrointestinal process. This essay accomplishes this through the application of actor-network theory. Central to actor-network theory is the claim that an object, like a book, is the product of a complex ne…
A Beautiful Failure
Jim Harvey was the artist who created the Brillo box that Andy Warhol copied and made famous. Warhol's Brillo Boxes changed the course of art history and the entire field of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Meanwhile, Jim Harvey died a failed second-generation Abstract Expressionist. To his death, Harvey refused to accept that his Brillo box was a work of art. However, the theory-the story-that was woven about Warhol's Brillo Boxes transform…
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