Anna M Hennessey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1097574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna M Hennessey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hennessey |
| SIGNATURE | HENNESSEY A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Theological Union |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9738-3172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Visualizations of Mountain-Body Fusions in Medieval Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Religion
This paper examines how Chinese people affiliated with different religions and ideologies of the Song period (960-1279 CE) used artistic, literary and visual representations to merge mountains and the natural world with the human body. This fusion of natural and human worlds in representation appears in a variety of contexts, including paintings of famous Song landscape artists, writings of literati thinkers, architectural developments of Neo-Con…
Remembrance for Patrick Alfred (Æ) Hutchings, Esquire
Rebirth and the Eternal Return in Modern and Contemporary Catalan Art and Identity
This article explores how themes of birth, rebirth, genesis and coming into being are present in modern and contemporary Catalan art, focusing on the works of Eugènia Balcells (b. 1942), Xicu Cabanyes (b. 1946), Mari Chordà (b. 1942), Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), and Joan Miró (1893-1983). In particular, the article looks at how these themes emerged for the artists as a way of expressing Catalan identity in the wake of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1…
Religion, Nonreligion and the Sacred: Art and the Contemporary Rituals of Birth
This paper looks at the role of art and material culture in the rituals of birth, first taking into consideration research on material culture in traditional rituals of birth and then turning to the primary topic, which is how art in the contemporary rituals of birth often holds sacred meaning even when the ritual is of a nonreligious nature. A discussion about the sacred in the context of a nonreligious ritual hinges upon an understanding of tha…
Imagery, Ritual, and Birth: Ontology between the Sacred and the Secular
Every human being is born and has gone through a process of birth. Yet the topic of birth remains deeply underrepresented in the humanities, overshadowed by a scholarly focus on death. This book explores how imagery is used ritualistically in religious, secular, and nonreligious ways during birth, through analysis of a wide variety of art, iconography, poetry, and material culture. Objects central to the book’s study include religious figurines, …
Religion, Nonreligion and the Sacred: Art and the Contemporary Rituals of Birth
This paper looks at the role of art and material culture in the rituals of birth, first taking into consideration research on material culture in traditional rituals of birth and then turning to the primary topic, which is how art in the contemporary rituals of birth often holds sacred meaning even when the ritual is of a nonreligious nature. A discussion about the sacred in the context of a nonreligious ritual hinges upon an understanding of tha…
Imagery, Ritual, and Birth: Ontology between the Sacred and the Secular
Every human being is born and has gone through a process of birth. Yet the topic of birth remains deeply underrepresented in the humanities, overshadowed by a scholarly focus on death. This book explores how imagery is used ritualistically in religious, secular, and nonreligious ways during birth, through analysis of a wide variety of art, iconography, poetry, and material culture. Objects central to the book’s study include religious figurines, …
Religion, Nonreligion and the Sacred: Art and the Contemporary Rituals of Birth
This paper looks at the role of art and material culture in the rituals of birth, first taking into consideration research on material culture in traditional rituals of birth and then turning to the primary topic, which is how art in the contemporary rituals of birth often holds sacred meaning even when the ritual is of a nonreligious nature. A discussion about the sacred in the context of a nonreligious ritual hinges upon an understanding of tha…
Remembrance for Patrick Alfred (Æ) Hutchings, Esquire
Rebirth and the Eternal Return in Modern and Contemporary Catalan Art and Identity
This article explores how themes of birth, rebirth, genesis and coming into being are present in modern and contemporary Catalan art, focusing on the works of Eugènia Balcells (b. 1942), Xicu Cabanyes (b. 1946), Mari Chordà (b. 1942), Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), and Joan Miró (1893-1983). In particular, the article looks at how these themes emerged for the artists as a way of expressing Catalan identity in the wake of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1…
Visualizations of Mountain-Body Fusions in Medieval Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Religion
This paper examines how Chinese people affiliated with different religions and ideologies of the Song period (960-1279 CE) used artistic, literary and visual representations to merge mountains and the natural world with the human body. This fusion of natural and human worlds in representation appears in a variety of contexts, including paintings of famous Song landscape artists, writings of literati thinkers, architectural developments of Neo-Con…
Art (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)