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The book studies the life and artistic production of 2 Jesuit painters and the influence of religion in their artistic expressions. While Carrasco's painting style is neo-classic and romantic in the strict tradition of the late 19th century academy, (he was a disciple of José Salomé Pina and Santiago Rebull), artist Aguayo artistic development was in the abstractionism world of the United States along such names as Marc Rothko and Franz Kline who transmitted their spiritual vision into his religious aesthetic concepts.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
A multidisciplinary collection of essays examining the influence of Mexican American religion on Mexican American literature, art, politics, and popular culture.
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Founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has been praised as a saintly god-send and condemned as the work of Satan. With some 600 entries written by 110 authors - those inside and outside the order - this encyclopedia opens up the complexities of Jesuit history and explores the current life and work of this Catholic religious order and its global vocation. Approximately 230 entries are biographies, focusing on key people in Jesuit history, while the majority of the entries focus on Jesuit ideals, concepts, terminology, places, institutions, and events. With some 70 illustrations highlighting the centrality of visual images in Jesuit life, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive volume providing accessible and authoritative coverage of the Jesuits' life and work across the continents during the last five centuries.
"Now in a one-volume revised edition, this encyclopedia of California historical information remains an ideally practical reference to the state."--From the dust-jacket front flap.
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