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The Serbian Medieval Cultural Legacy - Exhibit and Celebration

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

East Central European Center

Please honor us with your presence at:

THE SERBIAN MEDIEVAL CULTURAL LEGACY: EXHIBIT AND CELEBRATION

Atrium, 15th floor, International Affairs Building (420 W 118th St.)

January 23, 2015 // 6:30PM–8:30PM

Remarks by Vesna Petković,

author of: Serbian Medieval Cultural Heritage (2015)

Reception follows

Sponsors: The Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Studies

East Central European Center, Harriman Institute

Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia

RSVP to Tatiana Beloborodova at 212-851-2326 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Note to donors to Njegoš Fund: in our last letter to you, the address was omitted; if you wish to

make a donation, please send your contribution (payable to Columbia University) to:

Professor A. Timberlake / ECEC / IAB 1228 / 420 W 118th St. / MC3345 / New York, NY 10027.

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0

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