Modern art and the life of a culture: the religious impulses of modernism

Part 1. Critical contexts. Introduction: religion and the discourse of modernism

H.R. Rookmaaker, Modern art and the death of a culture

Part 2. Geographies, histories and encounters. France, Britain and the sacramental image

Germany, Holland and northern romantic theology

Russian icons, Dada liturgies and rumors of nihilism

North America and the expressive image

North America in the age of mass media.